The Regional Water Authority's Whitney Water Center is located next to the Whitney Waterfalls near the New Haven line on Whitney Avenue. It is on the same property as the Eli Whitney Museum. The Water Center is the RWA's educational arm, offering programs on environmental and water issues free of charge to residents of the communities RWA serves -- Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Bethany, Branford, Cheshire, Derby, East Haven, Guilford, Hamden, Killingworth, Madison, Milford, New Haven, North Branford, North Haven, Orange, Prospect, Regional District #16, Regional District #17, Seymour, West Haven and Woodbridge.
The mission of the center is to show people -- both adults and children -- how their actions affect the environment and the water supply.
Programs are tailored especially to children -- students, Boy and Girl Scout groups and other classes. It also administers a program for students in sixth through eighth grade called Watershed, Aquatic, Terrestrial Ecosystem Research, or WATER, that features a trip to the Mill River watershed in Hamden.
The programs offered at the Whitney Water Center also can be given in classrooms by RWA officials free of charge to schools.
