ADVISORY/Solar-Powered Boats to Be Raced by Southland High School Science Students in First-Ever Competition Sponsored by Metropolitan

Business Wire, May 27, 2003

Energy Editors/News Editors

ADVISORY...for Friday through Sunday (May 30-June 1)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

WHAT: Teams of science students from eight Southern California
      high schools race solar-powered boats they've built from scratch
      at three-day Solar Splash competition sponsored by the
      Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

WHEN: Media opportunity to see students test and fine-tune their boats
      Friday, May 30 at 10:30 a.m. Formal events run from 10 a.m. to 3
      p.m. Saturday, May 31 through Sunday, June 1.

WHERE: Lake Skinner Recreation Area, 33740 Borel Road, Winchester
       (Riverside County Thomas Guide Pg. 929, G-4); Maps available

WHO: Friday kick-off program features Metropolitan Chairman Phillip J.
     Pace, Hemet Mayor Lori VanArsdale, and Temecula Mayor Pro Tem
     Mike Naggar, as well as student captains piloting boats in
     formation. Sunday awards program at 1 p.m. with Ronald R.
     Gastelum, Metropolitan chief executive officer; Riverside County
     Supervisor Jim Venable; and MWD Director Helen Hansen of Long
     Beach.

     Student teams from Canyon High School, Anaheim; Moorpark High
     School and Newbury Park Adventist Academy, Ventura County; Valley
     View High School, Moreno Valley; Paloma Valley High School,
     Menifee; Long Beach Polytechnic High School; Bonita High School,
     La Verne; Centennial High School, Corona.

DETAILS: The three-day Solar Splash event is part of a national
         program sponsored in Southern California by Metropolitan.
         Solar Splash will help promote stewardship of resources and
         alternative technologies in events, which include inspections
         and qualifying at 11 a.m. Friday, 90-minute endurance races
         at 10 a.m. Saturday, and sprints at 10 a.m. Sunday.