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How to navigate the Dirty Water book

Wave 6 is focused on building communities around water to take action on raising awareness, engaging the public, growing local groups, building alliances, as well as increasing knowledge and understanding. Demonstrating agency - peoples’ voices can and will be heard. We have to become the stewards of our water commons.

Below is a SEQUENCE OF ACTION IDEAS, where each one builds on the previous:


The CONTENTS OF THIS DIRTY WATER BOOK are structured into the following chapters:


Throughout the Wave 6 chapter you'll find WATER LEVEL SYMBOLS, an instant visual guide to explain how much effort an action takes and/or how 'spicy' it is. The Water Levels are:

toe dip

Dip your toe

These are fun and easy actions that won't take too long to prepare. A good example for a toe-dip is the Cancel for Clean Water action. Most digital actions are also part of this level, but some more time-consuming actions would be found be at the Swim level.

paddle

Have a paddle

These are easy actions with a minimal amount of risk and no lengthy preparation time. Fishy Business is one of these used to pre-promote an action or for outreach.

“swim”

Take a swim

These actions involve a longer commitment or carry a small amount of risk. A good example is the Don’t Pay for Dirty Water campaign, where people refuse to pay their sewage bill over many months and risk their credit rating taking a knock.

deep dive

Deep dive

These actions take a considerable amount of effort and resources to prepare and do, so local groups might want to take this on as a key project for a season. Organising an assembly is one of those projects.


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Created 19 April 2024 12:15:09 by Ned
Updated 21 May 2025 14:46:14 by XRDeeds