# Lost at Sea? Start Here ⬅️

#### 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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">commons<a/>.

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

- [Blue Plaques for Nature](https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/books/dirty-water/page/blue-plaques-for-nature) print pre-made templates, or edit to produce your own and use a QR code to point to your group's sign-up, your event or info about your local waterway.
- [Fishy Business](https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/books/dirty-water/page/fishy-business) is our new idea for 'painting the streets style' actions.
- [Cancel your Direct Debit for Clean Water](https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/books/dirty-water/page/cancel-your-direct-debit-or-boycott-your-water-bill) is an easy way to create more work.
- [Digital Do-it-at-home Actions](https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/books/dirty-water/page/digital-do-it-at-home-actions) can be started at any time.
- Invite your neighbours to a [Community Assembly for Water](https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/books/dirty-water/page/community-assemblies-for-water).
- Gather Community ideas, requests, suggestions to feed to the national campaign for the [Citizens' Assembly on Water](https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/books/dirty-water/page/water-pressure-a-citizens-assembly-on-water).
- The ultimate goal of Dirty Water Wave 6 is to arrive at a [Citizens' Assembly on Water](https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/books/dirty-water/page/water-pressure-a-citizens-assembly-on-water) and reclaim our water commons.

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The **CONTENTS OF THIS DIRTY WATER BOOK** are structured into the following chapters:
- [WAVE 6](https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/books/dirty-water/chapter/wave-6) contains the new action ideas of Wave 6.
- [Assets](https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/books/dirty-water/chapter/assets) is a chapter full of creative templates, flyers, stickers and more relating to Dirty Water.
- [All Porpoise Actions](https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/books/dirty-water/chapter/all-porpoise-actions) has a load of ideas and instructions to support your actions. 
- [Knowledge is Powerful](https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/books/dirty-water/chapter/knowledge-is-powerful) contains several pages with more in depth information and links to other information sources.
- [Data Stream](https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/books/dirty-water/chapter/data-stream) dives even deeper into numbers and facts around Dirty Water


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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:

<img src="https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/uploads/images/gallery/2024-05/scaled-1680-/h2o-dip-icon-txt.png" width=100 alt="toe dip" style="float:right">
<h4>Dip your toe</h4>

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](https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/books/dirty-water/page/cancel-your-direct-debit-or-boycott-your-water-bill) action. Most digital actions are also part of this level, but some more time-consuming actions would be found be at the Swim level.

<img src="https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/uploads/images/gallery/2024-05/scaled-1680-/paddle-icon-txt.png" width=100 alt="paddle" style="float:right">
<h4>Have a paddle</h4>

These are easy actions with a minimal amount of risk and no lengthy preparation time. [Fishy Business](https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/books/dirty-water/page/fishy-business) is one of these used to pre-promote an action or for outreach.


<img src="https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/uploads/images/gallery/2024-05/scaled-1680-/swim-icon-txt.png" width=100 alt=“swim” style="float:right">
<h4>Take a swim</h4>

These actions involve a longer commitment or carry a small amount of risk. A good example is the [Don’t Pay for Dirty Water](https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/books/dirty-water/page/dont-pay-for-dirty-water-campaign) campaign, where people refuse to pay their sewage bill over many months and risk their credit rating taking a knock.

<img src="https://rebeltoolkit.extinctionrebellion.uk/uploads/images/gallery/2024-05/scaled-1680-/dive-icon-txt.png" width=100 alt="deep dive" style="float:right">
<h4>Deep dive</h4>

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.