Water Week in October is a yearly national event with a night allocated for special awareness placed on your water use. This year the special night is 19 October 2023.
Water Night helps Australian’s acknowledge their reliance on tap water with the aim of encouraging people to value water amidst climate change, improving water literacy and water using behaviours. For three years running, we have challenged households to go for one night without using their taps - no taps, no showers, no running water.
Conclusive evidence from the first three years of Water Night demonstrates that the event delivers on its aims and objectives – it raises water literacy by 24 per cent, water awareness by 18 per cent and participants claim to use their taps 10 per cent less after the event.
As part of this week an excellent suite of educational resources was made available to help our children learn the importance of water, and the processes it must go through before we safely use it.
As part of this week an excellent suite of educational resources was made available to help our children learn the importance of water, and the processes it must go through before we safely use it.
Please visit this site here to see the excellent resources available for school kids.
You can also download this fun colouring in book(PDF, 1MB) for the younger years.