The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is spending $20,000 for college students in Mississippi to build a rain garden.
The agency described the project as a "green infrastructure demonstration."
Mississippi State University will build a 1,500-square-foot rain garden, or garden that subsists on storm water runoff, on its campus.
The EPA said art students and landscape architecture, landscape contracting, and civil and environmental engineering majors will help build the garden and test its water quality.
Ken Kopocis, EPA’s deputy assistant administrator for water, said planting a rain garden is critical to the education of college students.
"The breadth of experience students are going to get from this project is remarkable," he said. "They will be prepared to contribute to green infrastructure on a number of fronts in their careers."
Funding will also go to "informational kiosks" on campus that will be used to "educate others about green infrastructure."