By Elaine Kelly | Partnerships coordinator
It's been a busy 6 months at WAI Wanaka. Here's an overview of how we have empowered volunteers to take environmental action.
Urban Catchment groups - Yo Eco, an environmental group aged 18 to 25 year olds, conducted a lakeside clean ups and recorded the items and amount collected. They also met to discuss ways to reduce their environmental impact through what they buy and how they invest.
Our Drains are Streams - Children from local preschools cleaned drains and learned why we must not allow waste items to go down them. They helped install a metal fish next to the drain to remind people that what goes down reaches our fish and our lake.
Embracing Te Taio - 80 students from the local school visited a farm to do aquatic health tests and soil testing to measure the impact of farm activities on the environment.
Secchi Disc testing - 10 local residents went out on kayaks to do water clarity and temperature testing on Lake Wanaka and uploaded their results on a world wide ap. This information will help us monitor our lake health.
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