This month on “Wonderful Water,” join 97.9 The Hill’s Andrew Stuckey for a conversation with Blake Hodge, OWASA communications specialist, concerning the annual OWASA Care to Share Day and its associated program.
This year, the fourth annual Care to Share Day falls on Thursday, November 17.
“We know that we live in an area that is thought of and, in many cases, is an affluent area — and everything that comes along with that,” said Hodge. “It’s also a community that about 20 percent of the households, according to our data, have annual incomes of less than $25,000. And those are the times where we have to make sure that we’re providing services for everybody … Over the last year, Care to Share was able to help out about 105 families with some of that direct funding on their water and sewer bill.”
Care to Share Day is meant to raise awareness and funds for the Care to Share bill-assistance program available for OWASA customers, and administered in partnership with the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service (IFC). Care to Share funds are used to make direct impact on the lives of local residents with past-due bills, and hundreds of those residents and families benefit from donations made.
You can donate to OWASA’s Care to Share program directly by clicking here.
(Featured image via OWASA)
You can listen to the full conversation below, and visit the Wonderful Water page here for more interviews and stories about the work OWASA does in our community.
Chapel Hill and Carrboro residents use roughly 7 million gallons of water a day, and “Wonderful Water” is a monthly conversation sponsored by the Orange Water and Sewer Authority highlighting its work to keep our community growing and water flowing.
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