FLOW (For Love Of Water)

Thank you Pick n Pay for your considerable contribution to drive action awareness both internally, to your customers and to the general public. This year Pick N Pay activated the For Love Of Water messaging through various channels during the Month of March and still continue to do so into April. Examples of what they created include [...]

 important is the role of water for food security in South Africa? The South African Water, Energy and Food forum (www.sawef.co.za), taking place on the 18th and 19th of April at the Sandton Convention Centre, is engaging related role players to understand and address issues that will frame the new policies around the water-energy-food nexus. [...]

8.30pm on Saturday 31st March 2012 is Earth Hour. Hundreds of millions of people across the globe will turn off their lights for 60 minutes as a gesture of solidarity in caring for and protecting the planet. This symbolic act has the added benefit of saving everyone a little bit of money. Soaring electricity prices [...]

Humanity is facing a resource crisis on a monumental scale, so it was a small miracle that the speakers at this weekend’s TEDx remained upbeat.  Despite a smorgasboard of talented creators, thinkers and change-makers who presented their twenty minute talks to a packed audience, two clear directives emerged from the talks:  -       Connect. Engage. Interact. [...]

 It’s easy: – Visit www.closethetap.co.za – Choose from a selection of water-saving tweet pledges, – Tweet your pledge and share it on Facebook.  Just three simple steps to help us spread the word and (if you fulfill your pledge) to save fresh water now.   The United Nation’s 2012 theme for World Water Day, March 22, [...]

What do Jacob Zuma, Mothers in Kommetjie and Bishop Tutu have in common? Find out as South Africa’s funniest Jewish Xhosa-speaking comic shares his passion for surfing, and gives us tips on how best to conserve water! WARNING:  Nik is joking!!  Please don’t actually drink your grey water at home! Join Nik and share your [...]

Ashley Ramsden, founding director of the School of Storytelling in the UK, was in South Africa for a month sharing the wonders of stories. He shares his story of water with us. International School of storytelling (schoolofstorytelling.com) Share your story – click here

The World Water Forum is happening this week in Marseille and the focus is on Solutions which drives action. Minister Edna Molewa from South AFrica is attending the Forum and we look forward to seeing some tangible results from this week. See below an extract from the opening remarks of the World Water Forum March [...]

Story: Because most of South Africa’s water is used in farming irrigation, Woolworths introduced their Farming for the Future programme and are working with fresh produce farmers to implement new methods of farming – which include irrigating only if and when crops need more water, rather than irrigating as a matter of course. Impact: Fifteen [...]

Hanli Prinsloo – SA Freediving champion and I AM WATER Trust shares her Passion for the Ocean and Nature and how she has committed her life to protecting what she loves. www.iamwater.co.za Join Hanli and share your story – click here