This year East Gippsland Water is partnering with water corporations across Victoria to bring you the National Water Week Online Learning Festival! Our online learning festival program will bring together a fantastic collection of online events, printable resources and on demand videos to make National Water Week 2021 a week of fun and learning.
National Water Week, 18– 22 October 2020, is a week that aims to inspire individuals, communities and organisations to think about 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. This year’s theme is ‘Explore your Backyard’.
Live Events:
On demand videos and resources:
Backyard activities
Create a recyclable rain gauge, become a leak detective or have a garden scavenger hunt – spending time in your backyard is a great educational excursion! Exploring the ecosystem that is your backyard, can give kids and adults a easy interaction with nature. Click here to find out more.
The ins and outs of a bug hotel:
Explore the benefits of insects in helping to pollinate plants, and learn how to make a bug hotel to encourage more insects into your garden. Barwon Water shows you how.
Storytime: Shane the Siltslayer!
Shane the Siltslayer is a short story written to introduce the many specialised machines East Gippsland Water uses to keep our water safe to drink. Listen to the tale Shane the Siltslayer as he travels to the bush to help his friends clean the drinking water in a rural town after a bushfire threatens their water supply.
Explore water with Dirtgirl!
Are you ready to be a nature detective? Step outside with dirtgirl, scrapboy and Costa the Garden Gnome and discover the story of water in your backyard! Discover more here!
Grow indigenous plants!
Growing indigenous plants around waterways and on cleared farmland improves raw water quality. Find out more in this short video made by Bass Coast Landcare Network & Westernport Water.
Mulching your garden
Mulching your garden can save up to 70% of water from evaporating. Find out about different mulches and help your garden thrive in this 4-minute video from North East Water.
Water Cycle yoga
Join yoga teacher, Victoria, on a journey through the water cycle. Made in Bendigo, this calming video helps tactile learners process and retain information about the water cycle.
There is many more great Water Week activities to help you explore your backyard and learn about water usage! Email our Education team at education@egwater.vic.gov.au for a full list with links.
National Water Week Poster Competition!
The National Water Week Poster Competition over for 2021! Primary School students across the East Gippsland region created incredible posters reflecting and exploring water-related issues that are important to them and how they use water in their daily lives.
To view the winning posters click below!
