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Walk for Water NSW

icyfroth — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 01:47:03 GMT

Over a week from Saturday Feb 21- Saturday 28 we will walk from the Avon Dam to Camden, Campbelltown, Liverpool, Fairfield, Prospect, Parramatta, Auburn, Ryde, Gladesville and NSW Parliament, one month before the NSW election. You don't have to walk the whole way though of course you are welcome to.

Along the way we will knock on the doors of our State MPs and tell them that water is too precious to undermine.

Along the way we will hear people's water stories, we will hear about mining, learn about Aboriginal approaches to water, we will we might hear from unionists about the threatened privatisation of Sydney Water, we will learn about water infrastructure.

We are hoping to have the first public event near Campbelltown, on Saturday the 21st, probably at Mt Annan Botanical Gardens.

Each leg of the way we invite local people and groups to carry the water bottle like an 'Olympic torch relay'.

Please let us know if you can walk some of the way, and if you can help us connect with local communities. For more details contact us at:walk4watersydney@gmail.com

http://www.walk4water.net/

Join the Facebook event here

Event Date and Time:

Saturday, February 21, 2015 - 10:30am to Saturday, February 28, 2015 - 10:30am

Location / Address:

Avon Dam to NSW Parliament House

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Would be good if we could get a similar crowd like the March in March

Re: Walk for Water NSW

softail-joanie — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 02:07:36 GMT

Hows this for a water story, yesterday, i came back to the leaky camper and where the snow and ice was melting on the roof, i almost lost my laptop, if the lid wasn't down it would be dripping into these keys. took several shirts to soak up the mess.

did you know that water as coolant in a car's raidator can crack the engine block when it freezes and expands. many cars destroyed from this.

if you drink too much water, you have to use the restroom alot, thats inconvient..

the polar icecaps are melting, lets see how much you like water in a few short years.

don't mind me, i'm just bagging on water, if it were local, i'd be walking with ya. i'll spend some time walking by the ohio river this summer. plenty of water in there. lol

Re: Walk for Water NSW

***super_nova*** — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 02:23:02 GMT

It is not so much about quantity as about quality, non polluted drinking water.

Re: Walk for Water NSW

softail-joanie — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 03:11:22 GMT

It is not so much about quantity as about quality, non polluted drinking water.

FLUORIDE: WHAT Is It & WHY It's In Our Water

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wCjgfhT9Yw

Re: Walk for Water NSW

poddster — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 03:18:41 GMT

I would gladly join in if it was a Walk On Water event 🙂

Re: Walk for Water NSW

jean2579 — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 06:46:47 GMT

Watere is a dirty word here ATM. We are awash with the stuff, we need flippers to go into the backyard and it looks like another 7 days of it.

Good luck with your walk though I hope that it's successful.

Re: Walk for Water NSW

lind9650 — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 06:56:58 GMT

I have just read the story about Shannon Fraser from Leeton, NSW, having been lost in the bush for 17 days. She had nothing to eat all that time, but she got water from a creek and that kept her alive.

Without water she would have died within three or four days.

Water is the blood of life. Without water nothing can survive.

Good luck with the walk. I hope the MPs will listen to reason and act acordingly.

Erica

Re: Walk for Water NSW

icyfroth — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 07:33:08 GMT

America is a water rich country, so I can understand how you're wondering why we're so precious about it.

Australia is a dry continent apart from the coastal areas.

So much so, that we get very upset when mining companies come and a) use up our precious groundwater for their mining operations, and b) discharge their run-off, even maybe accidently, into our precious waterways.

I get what you're saying re flouride. There was quite a long-running thread about that here a cpl of years ago.

Look after your laptop. You'd hate not to be able to post here lol.

Re: Walk for Water NSW

softail-joanie — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 09:55:31 GMT

i was just kidding in my first reply, lol, good luck on the walk, wish i could be walking with you.