Five students who attend school in the Irvine Ranch Water District service area had their posters selected for judging in the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California’s “Water is Life” poster contest.

IRWD judges selected the posters from among approximately 200 received from schools in the Irvine Unified, Tustin and Saddleback Unified school districts.

The five finalists will be sent to Metropolitan, where they will compete with posters submitted by water agencies all over Southern California. IRWD has had at least one winner every year for more than 20 years of participation

Once Metropolitan makes its selection, students will be notified in the fall if their posters will be published in the 2016 Water is Life calendar.

The five finalists for 2014 are:

• Mikaela Milhaven, fourth grade, Foothill Ranch Elementary School
• Ananya Someshwar, fifth grade, Plaza Vista Elementary School
• Jana Ibrahim, first grade, Westpark Elementary School
• Sai Varsha Ravisankar, fourth grade, Stonegate Elementary School
• David Chang, second grade, Hicks Canyon Elementary School

Each student received a certificate and bag of IRWD goodies.

The posters which were not selected as the five finalists will have another chance – they have been sent to the Municipal Water District of Orange County for judging in the 2015 poster and slogan contest.