{"id":273019,"date":"2026-08-27T04:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T04:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273019\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T04:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T04:56:07","slug":"an-appreciation-of-water-valley-community-library-hosts-wonderful-world-of-water-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/273019\/","title":{"rendered":"An appreciation of water: Valley Community Library hosts Wonderful World of Water camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pennsylvania American Water hosted its 2026 Wonderful World of Water Camp earlier this month at the Valley Community Library in Peckville. Introduced in Northeast Pennsylvania in 2011, the free camps give children ages 7 to 11 an opportunity to explore the outdoors while learning about the importance of clean water.<\/p>\n

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Divy Patel, 10, Rigel Shattuck, 9, Jude Calaruso, 11, and Savannah Walker, 7, work in a group to create a miniature water tank. (SEAN MCKEAG\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<\/p>\n

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Pennsylvania American Water engineer Sarah Mihalick, right, instructs a group of students on how to build their own miniature water tanks. (SEAN MCKEAG\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<\/p>\n

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Divy Patel, 10, Rigel Shattuck, 9, Jude Calaruso, 11, and Savannah Walker, 7, work in a group to create a miniature water tank. (SEAN MCKEAG\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<\/p>\n

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Campers participate in hands-on activities focused on watershed basics, how land use affects rivers and streams, and ways to reduce water pollution. The program also highlights the importance of watershed protection along the banks of the Susquehanna and Lackawanna rivers. Pennsylvania American partners with Penn State Extension\u2019s Master Watershed Stewards and the nonprofit Riverfront Parks Committee to host the camps.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor 15 years, this program has been offering a unique experience that takes children into the environment for hands-on learning about one of our most precious resources,\u201d said John Maday, executive director of the Riverfront Parks Committee. \u201cWe\u2019re so fortunate to have our local rivers as the focal points of these camps, allowing campers to learn how they can help protect them while learning from local environmentalists.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Lackawanna County camp ran Aug. 3-6 at the library. The Luzerne County camp was held in July at Wilkes University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania American Water hosted its 2026 Wonderful World of Water Camp earlier this month at the Valley Community…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2118,201,3052,28,178,180,179,3053,3054],"class_list":["post-273019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-blakely","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-midvalley","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-valley-advantage","tag-valley-advantage-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}