Water Hour 2010: An incredible success!
Well, the world’s first Water Hour was June 11th 2010 – and what a fantastic celebration it was! A whopping 66 different environmental organizations promoted Water Hour through Twitter, not to mention a huge number of individuals, spreading the word to well over 400,000 followers combined! And that doesn’t count everyone who heard about it through facebook, through TV and radio interviews and press coverage on a plethora of websites and blogs, as well as through flyers and email shout-outs from so many dedicated supporters. We’ve had wonderful feedback and participation, and if you haven’t posted yet about your celebration, we want to hear about it! Tell us about it on this page.
Be sure to read the great posts here and visit us on Twitter, facebook, YouTube and Flickr to see all the ways people took part! Did you miss the event? No problem, you can still participate anytime by posting on our Water Moments, Ideas and Declare pages. Let people know about your own projects on the Collaborate page. And please submit your thoughts and comments on Water Hour or anything water-related here:
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Douglas Worts
from Toronto, Canada
Posted 2010/06/28
at 03:17 PM
I have lived in Toronto for over 30 years. Rarely did I have any consciousness of living on Lake Ontario. That all changed when I started sailing dinghys in Toronto harbour. Being out on the water with the specific purpose of harnessing wind and water to move my boat forward, I became aware of the city in a completely new way - expansive, impressive, cohesive. Looking back at the city from the water made me aware of how unconscious of the lake most of the time. Going sailing, canoeing or kayaking is an easy way to have an immersion experience in nature - and it happens very shortly after you leave the shore!
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Eve
from Richmond Hill, Canada
Posted 2010/06/18
at 03:02 PM
My mother who is 94, still lives in her house in Pickering and she is still on a well and a septic system. She is surrounded by suburbia but also by trees so she does not really see the big houses around her. They are all on municipal water and sewers.
On water day we had to have one of the few people in the area that will deal with wells come in. Her well had silted up and had run dry. One man went down the well in a bucket on a winch and cleaned out the silt. It was a gamble. Would the well recover??
I am pleased to tell you a week later that the well which is a dug well, now has 7 feet of clear water in the bottom. It is clear and beautiful water. She can now stay in her house!!
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Dr Chabad De Jaeger
from Cape Town, South Africa
Posted 2010/06/16
at 04:32 PM
We celebrated Water hour on the FIRST DAY of the World Cup Soccer 2010 in Cape Town. What a SPLASH... also Dr Masuru Emoto hosted a series of workshops in Cape Town. Instead of celebrating with alcohol we drank fresh mountain water from Table Mountain... cool, refreshing and safe.
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Christine Gebel
from Toronto, Canada
Posted 2010/06/12
at 07:50 PM
I was at a class, an ecotheology class! When water hour arrived we watched a video entitled: Water - Sacred & Profaned. It was very good!
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Lesley Kelly
from Mansfield, Canada
Posted 2010/06/12
at 07:34 PM
I was at a charity event that was hosted at a beautiful location on the shores of Lake Simcoe. At 8 p.m. I was with dear friends and we spent the time extolling the virtues of living on or near water..how it made us feel, how it completed our vision of the perfect environment for living. It certainly made us appreciate the bounty that we have here in Ontario. There was fresh water as far as the eye could see, and even though most people in the room were from the area and had seen the lake shore at twilight a million times before, I could see and hear that they never tired of the joy and beauty that the lake view offered. We are blessed and darn lucky!
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Ann Ewan
from TORONTO,
Posted 2010/06/12
at 05:04 PM
For Water Hour, I took a walk with my husband along the Don River. My sister reminded me by email to take garbage bags!
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Margot Fish
from Toronto, ON, Canada
Posted 2010/06/12
at 03:55 PM
Walked along Lake Ontario with a friend and sat to gaze at the water and people enjoying it. Water is precious. I sent the message to as many folks as I could across Canada, USA, Ireland and South Africa. I'm hoping more will share with us. Margot
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Vlad Michnevich
from Toronto, Canada
Posted 2010/06/12
at 10:21 AM
(Originally posted Jun 11 7:02 pm) For water hour my parents are going to talk with our neighbours about water and how much it is important to us all. I encourage others to do the same. :)
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