Christopher Eppler News Today

SALT LAKE CITY — A group of three high school students runs through a field of sprinklers, narrowly dodging bursts of water as they shout out, "137, white head, quarter flow!" One of them quickly jots down notes on a spreadsheet, eager to bring it inside and get to the fun part: calculus and auditing. Doesnt sound like your ideal summer? Then you must not be a water manager intern, where summer fun means traveling to 40 schools around the Canyons School District to track water usage by the hu...

As Utah moves into a historic drought for the summer, student interns in Salt Lake County are finding ways to save millions of gallons of water by auditing sprinkler systems on 341 acres of fields.

Students in the Canyons School District are doing their part to conserve water as the Utah deals with extreme drought.