General Info

The South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority is a nonprofit organization that provides water and related services to residents in south central Connecticut. It offers Pipesafe, a program that covers homeowners in the event of an underground water pipe bursting on their property. SCCRWA also offers water science programs through the Whitney Water Center. At the WWC, water science programs are taught to school classes, scouts and other groups. For students in grades 6 through 8, it offers Project W.A.T.E.R., which teaches watershed, aquatic, terrestrial and ecosystem research. Students spend a day at one of the reservoirs gathering data to show the interrelationship of forest, soil and lake communities within an ecosystem. The South Central Connecticut Regional Water Authority serves more than 425,000 consumers in 15 cities and towns in the New Haven, Conn., area.