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Video Contest to Educate the Public about Water Quality   
The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Wetlands, Oceans and Watersheds (OWOW) is sponsoring a video contest to engage the public on water quality issues and to inspire stewardship for the nation’s waters. OWOW is soliciting short videos to help educate the public about water pollution and simple steps that individuals and communities can take to improve and protect water quality. 

Videos are being accepted on a wide variety of topics including: low impact development, wetlands, marine debris, watershed management, water quality monitoring, polluted runoff, and other water-related topics. The videos should convey to the public easy, low-cost steps that individuals and communities can take to improve and protect the nation’s streams, rivers, lakes, wetlands, estuaries, and oceans. 
The contest will run until Earth Day, April 22, 2009. Videos will be judged by a panel of experts on the basis of creativity and originality, quality, technical accuracy, and content of message.   

Two winners will be chosen for 1) a short, 30 or 60 second video that is useable as a public service announcement, and 2) a longer 1 to 3 minute video. Each winner will receive a $2,500 cash award and their videos will be featured on EPA’s Web site. 

For more information on the video contest please go to: 
http://www.epa.gov/owow/videocontest.html