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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 Citizens' 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 facts around Dirty Water
Throughout this book you will find WATER LEVEL SYMBOLS, an easy to understand guide to understand how much effort an action takes and/or how 'spicy' it is. The Water Levels are:
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.
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.
Have 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 month and risk their credit rating to take a knock.
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.