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National Water Week provides an opportunity for individuals and organisations across Australia to take part in promoting water as a limited and valuable resource. In a time when we battle with water shortages, getting involved in NWW may encourage increased understanding by staff, stakeholders and the broader community of what we can do, both individually and collectively, to secure our water future.
NWW is the ideal opportunity to showcase some of the actions and activities that are currently underway in the local area to secure our water future and provides support to schools, business and community members and groups who are running their own activities.
Benefits for Businesses
- An opportunity to promote the organisation as having a commitment towards water conservation, management and awareness
- An understanding of employees and stakeholders about the organisation's attitude towards water conservation
- An opportunity for staff to participate in team-building activities
- Potential for networking within and across the organisation
- An opportunity to encourage water saving practices within the workplace
Benefits for Community Groups
- A place to learn about local initiatives
- An opportunity to network and make new friends
- Formation of partnerships between various groups
- An opportunity to make a difference to their local environment
Benefits for Councils
- An opportunity to compliment and promote their own water awareness campaign
- Potential to increase awareness and understanding about water conservation and management across their communities
- Promotion of local environmental action groups
- A platform to encourage community participation in a variety of water-related activities.
Get Involved
Get your comprehensive guide to planning and running a National Water Week event for your organisation.
Steps to get your organisation involved:
- Nominate a coordinator who is willing to oversee preparations for the activities
- Decide what outcome you would like to achieve as a result of running your event
- Pick a location to carry out your National Water Week activities
- Pick a day to run your activity/event
- Register your activity/event on the National Water Week website
- Structure the experience around the planned outcomes
- Ask staff and stakeholders for assistance
- Hold your event/ activity
- Upload photos of your event/activity on to the National Water Week Photo Gallery.
Those involved in National Water Week are supported through:
- National branding under the National Water Week program
- Newsletters and information
- National Water Week Guide to running your own event.
- National Water Week events calendar
- National Water Week poster
- National Water Week colouring-in template
- Media release templates
Ideas for events and activities that can be run to promote National Water Week
- Organise short presentations and invite staff to share water saving suggestion or to talk about their relevant projects and local initiatives
- Undertake an audit of water use across the organisation
- Promote NWW through internal communication channels
- Partner with local environmental groups to participate in a variety of activities
- Hold an activity along a local waterway to monitor water quality, clean up the foreshore or plant some vegetation
- Visit a local garden, home or business which is undertaking water conservation actions
- Run a photography competition which focuses on the National Water Week theme
- Library and shopping centre displays
