WATER HEROES: SAVE EVERY DROP
To help celebrate National Water Week, Victorian water corporations are once again hosting our popular National Water Week poster competition.
This year’s poster competition theme is - Water Heroes: Save Every Drop.
Victorian children from early learning through to Year 6 primary level are encouraged to design, draw or paint a poster that demonstrates this theme.
- Teachers/Educators – this is a great activity for the classroom in the lead up to National Water Week.
- Parents – this is a fun and engaging activity to do with your child.
Educator’s guide and activities: Inspire your students to become water heroes
To help introduce this year’s National Water Week theme to children/students, we’ve created an Educator’s Guide. Designed to support learning in both early childhood and primary classrooms, this resource includes background information, discussion prompts, and activity ideas — all aligned with the 2025 theme, Water Heroes: Save Every Drop.
Whether you're kicking off a water unit or supporting students in creating their posters, these resources will make it easy to bring the message of water conservation into your classroom in a fun, engaging and meaningful way.
- Educator guide
- Preschool
- Foundation – Year 2
- Years 3 – 6
There are great prizes for children/students and centres/schools.
Poster entries categories
- Early Learning/Kindergarten (BOTH individual entries and collaborative entries accepted)
- Prep/Foundation (individual entries ONLY accepted)
- Years 1 – 2 (individual entries ONLY accepted)
- Years 3 – 4 (individual entries ONLY accepted)
- Years 5 – 6 (individual entries ONLY accepted)
Key dates
- Entries close: Friday, 5pm on 12 of September 2025
- Winners will be announced during National Water Week, 20 - 26 October 2025
Entry conditions
- Poster size must be A4 or A3
- Any medium, from paper to digital, can be used
- Any art material and digital technology can be used, including paint, textas, crayons, coloured pencils, collage materials, original photographs and digital graphics
- Uploaded files are limited to 20MB
- Image files should be in .JPG, .PDF or .PNG formats
- For primary school aged children, group artwork will NOT be accepted (only one child per artwork)
- For early learning/kindergarten both individual entries and collaborative entries will be accepted
- Each child/student/collaborative group can only enter once
Judging
Winners will be chosen by:
- how well does the poster communicate the National Water Week poster competition theme, ‘Water Heroes: Save Every Drop' and/or relevant water-related issues
- how attractive does it look from a distance
- have art materials been used effectively
- does the poster use innovative imagery, design or concepts
First prize winners in each category from all participating Victorian water corporations are automatically entered into the state level of competition.
Find your local competition now!
Enter your centre/school's postcode in the text box below to find your local Victorian Water Week Poster Competition,
or simply click on your water corporation as listed below.
Competitions
About National Water Week
National Water Week makes a splash across Australia every third week in October, inspiring individuals, communities and organisations to build awareness around the value of water. Access to clean water is hugely important to our daily lives, and it’s down to all of us to protect our water environments and resources and use water wisely.
The Victorian water educators acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands and waterways on which we live, work and play. We respect and celebrate their culture and deep connection to Country.
Proudly supported by the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action and the Schools Water Efficiency Program.
Togther with Australian Water Association (AWA) we are celebrating National Water Week.