 The Bayer Fund, a philanthropic arm of Bayer in the United States, has awarded the National Great Rivers Research and Education Center in East Alton an $8,000 grant. It will be used to increase water literacy in the Lewis and Clark Community College District and adjacent communities through its annual water festival. Svorsky Foundation Water School USA coordinator and NGRAC Environmental Education Director Jennifer Mandeville tells the Big Z how this came to be. It started with a connection with the Bayer community