The Greater Idaho Falls Area Water Festival is an environmental education outreach to 4th - 6th grade students across eastern Idaho. The event hopes to remind students of the importance of water in everyday life, encourage them to learn more about how they can help protect this vital resource, and equip them be informed decision makers for tomorrow. The Idaho Falls Water Festival, celebrating its 15th year, is supported by partners at both the state and local levels. Our local event is a tradition that brings together students, teachers, and environmental and educational professionals from many private, state, and federal agencies and organizations. We have long described Water Festival Day, the second Thursday of May each spring as "organized Mayhem." The months of planning that precede this event provide the opportunity for organization; the nearly 1,400 students, teachers, presenters and volunteers, combined with the uncertainties of spring weather always deliver on the "Mayhem." Idaho Falls Water Festival culminates in the one-day event hosted at Idaho Falls Tautphaus Park and the Gem State Dam facilities. The event kicks-off with encouragement by Idaho Falls Mayor Furhiman and each session concludes with the awards for the Water Festival poetry contest. While the highlight of Water Festival is the one-day water education fair, outreach includes water education materials that are distributed to students and teachers across the region, and smaller water festival events to accommodate other schools.