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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 allies, increasing knowledge and understanding. Demonstrating agency - peoples’ voices can and will be heard.
We thought of a SEQUENCE OF ACTION IDEAS, where each one builds on the previous:
- Blue Plaques for Nature use a QR code to build up towards Restore Nature Now on 22 June 2024 and then switch to the RNN logo only.
- Fishy Business is our new idea for 'painting the streets style' actions.
- Cancel your Direct Debit for Clean Water is an easy way to create more work.
- Digital Do-it-at-home Actions can be started at any time.
- Invite your neighbours to a Community Assembly for Water
- The ultimate goal of Dirty Water Wave 6 is to arrive at a Citizen Assembly on water management and pollution
CONTENTS OF THIS DIRTY WATER BOOK is structured into the following chapters:
- WAVE 6 contains the new action ideas of Wave 6.
- Assets is a chapter full of creative templates, flyers, stickers and more relating to Dirty Water.
- All Porpoise Actions has a load of ideas and instructions to support your actions.
- Knowledge is Powerful contains several pages with more in depth information and links to other information sources.
- Data Stream dives even deeper into numbers and fats around Dirty Water
Throughout this book you will find WATER LEVEL SYMBOLS, an easy to understand guide to understand how much . The Water Levels are:
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.
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.
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
These actions...