HOLIDAYS: The GIF that keeps on giving. Join our #h2oGIFexchange all season long.

December is upon us and we're in a GIF-giving mood.

Share your best water- or sanitation-related GIFs with us and we'll post them here to see and share all holiday-season long. Tag us on Twitter with @neorsd or #h2oGIFexchange and share the clean-water meme love.

What better way to show someone you care. About clean water.

Meet Ryan and Christen, wastewater plant operators extraordinaire.

The mouth of a sea lamprey. You're welcome.

Prospector dance.

LOOK: Treatment-plant steam coats trees with icy crystals

A winter wastewater wonderland?

When the temps drop below freezing and the wastewater flowing through our treatment plants' outdoor tanks is a near-constant 50ºF, the result is a whole lotta steam cascading across the plant landscape. Southerly Operator Christen Wood sent us a beautiful photo of the result.

The steam freezes to nearby trees. The ice crystals didn't last long, though; she sent a follow-up photo a few short hours later after the sunrise.

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GIF: Animation shows before-and-after #StormwaterProgram emergency repairs

Consider this a GIFfed example of our stormwater management program in action. It’s an emergency stream-bank-repair job along Mill Creek and Warner Road from earlier this year. The bank—eroded by years of increased runoff and higher stream volumes—was graded and stabilized to ensure the roadside did not collapse into the stream.

We recently blogged about another example of regional stormwater management program success in Pepper Pike.