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How to navigate the Dirty Water book

Wave 6 has now launched and is focused on building communities around water to take action on raising awareness, engaging the public, growing local groups, building allies, increasing knowledge and understanding. Demonstrating agency - peoples’ voices can and will be heard.

There are a couple of priority action ideas to have a look at in sequence:

  • Blue Plaques for nature
  • Fishy Business

With wave 6 the Dirty Water Book received a major overhaul. We now have these key chapters:

  • WAVE 6 (add link) contains the new action ideas of Wave 6.
  • Assets (add link) is a chapter full of creative templates, flyers, stickers and more relating to Dirty Water.
  • All Porpoise Actions (add link) has a load of ideas and instructions to support your actions.
  • Knowledge is Powerful (add link) contains several pages with more in depth information and links to other information sources.
  • Data Stream (add link) dives even deeper into numbers and fats around Dirty Water

We also introduced Water Levels, an easy to understand category of risk (aka 'spicyness') for each action. The Water Levels are:

toe dip

Dip your toe

These are fun and easy actions that won't take too long to prepare and are with out risk. A good example is the .... Many 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 (add link) is one of these used to pre-promote an action or for outreach.

“swim”

Have a swim

These actions involve a longer commitment and 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 month and risk their credit rating to take a knock.

deep dive

Deep dive

These actions...

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