So far this year, five children younger than 4 have drowned in Palm Beach County. As a result, the Health Care District has joined Delray Community Hospital and St. Mary's Medical Center in an effort to better educate parents and caretakers.

Health officials warned that it's not only pools and canals parents need to worry about. They should also watch for buckets of water, flooded back yards and any standing water in which a child's nose and mouth may be submerged.

"One day a kid will have a dry back yard and the next day, after a rainstorm, there's two feet of water," [David] Seeds said. "Large puddles like that are especially common in apartment complexes. And while it doesn't seem like that much water to an adult, if you're a little kid, that is just a huge amount of water."