From the Buffalo News:
More than 80 eighth-grade students from Rosemont Middle School in Los Angeles were in Niagara Falls over the weekend to take two plastic jugs of water from the Niagara River.
After seeing the sights in the Niagara area, they boarded a tour bus for New York City, where they will pour one of the jugs into the mouth of the Hudson River.
It’s all part of an educational class trip to recreate the â€ŔWedding of the Waters†ceremony conducted by then-Gov. De- Witt Clinton during the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825.
The other jug of water will be flown back to Los Angeles, where the students will pour it into the Pacific Ocean in a symbolic gesture of bicoastal unity.