Guadi Rabino
Assistant Managing Editor
Instead of waiting for change, Mira Costa junior Phillip Wah decided to make change happen.
In efforts to conserve more water not only in our city but in our state as well, Wah decided to start and lead Mira Costa’s California Water Conservation Club. The club focuses on finding efficient ways to limit our daily use of water.
“I see kids wasting water everywhere and that really hits home for me. There were people I knew that were taking 10 minute showers,” Wah said. “Things like that aren’t going to stop by just saying it should stop so I found people that felt the same way and thus the water conservation club was born.”
Link: Read more about the best ways to conserve water.
In order to be able to finance their national studies done to find the amount of water the city wastes annually members of the club focus their energy on fundraising. They also focus on finding ways to conserve all of the wasted water not only in Manhattan Beach but across the state as well.
“I know other clubs that just send their money to places they’re never going to see again,” Wah said. “What we are doing here is more hands-on and we are fundraising to finance our studies and I think what we are doing is going to affect us here at home base.”
Many of their fundraising activities differ from those of other clubs because they have many events in which outsiders can get involved, such as Annual Mulch Day in where they help the school conserve water by cutting down on the amount of water wasted by our use of sprinklers.
“Our club is yet a small fraction of a global effort to conserve water,” Wah said. “Water conservation is a big part of our state in California and in order to contribute to the contribution, one person couldn’t do it all, it had to be a group effort.”
Link: Visit the Mira Costa Water Conservation club Instagram.
The club plans to conduct a study at Disneyland Resort in February of 2017 and calculate the amount of water that the park wastes a day solely on their water urinals. The goal is to report the studies to the park and persuade them to switch to urinals that use the least amount of water.
“I think that I speak for the club when I say that we are most excited for the Disneyland national study,” Wah said. “It’s going to be hard work and it’s a long road to get there but when we do eventually which will be this year I’m sure it is going to be crazy. I don’t think any club has done something like that before.”
Wah said he hopes to recruit underclassmen to take over his club because all of the existing members are currently juniors. He has many future plans for the club that will help fund his future studies.
“I really hope the club doesn’t die after all of our members graduate in 2018,” Wah said. “I want the club to make a lasting impact on this school and hopefully we leave a legacy behind.”
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