#Ala Wai Canal
Math in action: UH students create genki balls to help fight water pollution
Learning mathematical concepts while helping to clean one of Hawaiʻi’s most polluted waterways was the focus of a creative University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa lesson.
Watershed lessons culminate in Genki ball drop into the Ala Wai Canal
A total of 80 first grade students from Kamehameha Schools Kapālama tossed Genki balls into the Ala Wai Canal Wednesday to help clean the polluted waterway.
What did UH study find about natural flesh-eating bacteria in Oʻahu canal?
Vibrio vulnificus, a “flesh-eating” bacterium that lives naturally in the water of the Ala Wai Canal in Waikīkī, is likely to increase substantially in coming decades, but infections are rare, according to recently published research led by the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
