{"id":325879,"date":"2026-07-01T12:37:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/325879\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T12:37:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:37:25","slug":"water-color-project-orange-county-students-auction-hand-painted-rain-barrels-for-water-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/325879\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Color Project | Orange County students auction hand-painted rain barrels for water conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tStudents in Orange County are turning rain barrels into artistic creations to highlight the importance of water conservation as part of the Orlando Utilities Commission&#8217;s (OUC) annual Water Color Project.  The project involves auctioning off 28 hand-painted barrels created by local students, with all proceeds going directly back to the participating schools.  The effort blends arts education, environmental stewardship and community engagement, turning functional rain barrels into one-of-a-kind pieces that also promote water conservation. Bidding is open to the public through July 3, with each barrel starting at $150. Click here to learn more.&gt;&gt;Watch the full interview in the video player above.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tORLANDO, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Students in Orange County are turning rain barrels into artistic creations to highlight the importance of water conservation as part of the Orlando Utilities Commission&#8217;s (OUC) annual Water Color Project.  <\/p>\n<p>The project involves auctioning off 28 hand-painted barrels created by local students, with all proceeds going directly back to the participating schools.  <\/p>\n<p>The effort blends arts education, environmental stewardship and community engagement, turning functional rain barrels into one-of-a-kind pieces that also promote water conservation. <\/p>\n<p>Bidding is open to the public through July 3, with each barrel starting at $150. <\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ouc.com\/community\/focus-areas\/water-color-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here <\/a>to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;Watch the full interview in the video player above. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students in Orange County are turning rain barrels into artistic creations to highlight the importance of water conservation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[134772,3087,134773,21370,891,28952,4769,134771,18764,20949,134767,139,141,140,22369,6337,3574,134770,134769,2956,134768],"class_list":["post-325879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-annual-water-color-project","tag-art","tag-artistic-creation","tag-community-engagement","tag-conservation","tag-effort","tag-environmental-stewardship","tag-hand-painted-barrel","tag-importance","tag-july","tag-orange-county-students","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-utilities-commission","tag-ouc","tag-part","tag-rain-barrel","tag-rain-barrels","tag-student","tag-water-color-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}