There’s many things about the D.C. government that we struggle to understand. And sometimes, asking the D.C. government itself to explain doesn’t help.

D.C. Water, though, seems to have found a perfect medium for not only explaining what it does, but also making it appealing to listen to. Greater Greater Washington points us to the cartoon adventure of a D.C. raindrop—D.C. Water’s clever way of explaining its plans to build a massive tunnel under the Anacostia River to hold stormwater runoff.

This isn’t the first time that the city’s water and sewer authority has used creative means to explain what it does: two years ago, it rolled out Wendy the Waterdrop, its own mascot.

Cartoons really do make everything better, even municipal government.