Adopt a Waterway!

Doesn’t it feel good to get involved in something? What if that something was huge? How about adopting waterway? Professor Tanya Stanley runs a program with her students. She maintains a waterway by San Jacinto College. The waterway is located on Center and Cunningham Drive. With students and faculty volunteering our time, we care for this waterway. This project cleans up around the waterway and the areas around it, we get to gain more knowledge about what these waterways do and we get to help our local community and environment. It’s also a very great way to help students understand that volunteering and helping maintain a good environment is very crucial today.

This is also a type of learning experience every class should implement at some point as well. Yes textbooks and lectures are highly informative, and very traditional. Yes, there are limits to learning in a traditional manner. By implementing students to volunteer outside of the classroom will open more doors to learn and give the students and professors experience they won’t in a classroom. It gives the students a sense of responsibility of not being wasteful. It also teaches them it’s important to become involved with outs as they will one day request the same as well.

Water is very vital to us and anything that is living. Joining Professor Stanley’s program will help the volunteers understand that. That’s why it is very crucial to care and maintain this waterway. The work done is something you’ve seen but this time you get to fully experience it. This is something done as a team and not sitting alone at your desk reading some textbook. Doing something ourselves teaches us the values of the work put it to it. So when we liter we ruin someone’s property, when we liter we danger living things in that area.

You’ll feel important knowing that you are looking out for your local environment and care about the quality of the water which is heavily relied on! It’s also an enjoyable experience to be able to be involved with nature itself. With students helping they will have a good refreshing evening with nature which will help them relax their minds. We strongly encourage the students to be more engaged with the environment and their surroundings. Even families and other organizations can join as well. You get a sense of doing something helpful and being committed to something. Not only are helping the environment but your also saving life of animals and habits that rely on that water way.

Yes there is responsibility and possibly intensive but it’s not. Participation is a few times in a year and its picking up litter and debris left behind in, or areas surrounding the water way. It is highly encouraged for students to come join Professor Stanley on November 21, 2016 from 9 am to 11 am. Just a few hours of your time wouldn’t hurt. Anybody’s presence and participation is appreciated. With the waterway running 2.5 to 3 miles there’s plenty of work to do and to be done. Please dress in comfortable outdoor clothing and tennis shoes that you wouldn’t mind getting a little dirty as we will be on our feet the entire time. If we work together as a team and a way teams should be working, this won’t feel like a chore at all. The more people we have the more social, and a great experience it shall be.

            The reason for adopting a water way is to prevent further harm to our environment and wildlife. It’s a program where we pick up trash and debris along the water way by San Jacinto College. Most likely we will meet up at least twice a year. It doesn’t hurt to put in a total if 6 hours in the year to make out environment better. The feeling of being a [art of something an accomplishing a goal is the best feeling to have. People who love nature will be amazed by how much wildlife is surround the water way as well. There’s nothing better than standing up and making a difference that will change the world.