atula40 HOUR DROUGHT
March 19th 2007 00:05
19/03/07
Now, this is a great idea!
Based on the traditional 40 Hour Famine, the “40 HOUR DROUGHT” asks us to take a serious look at our water usage and what it's doing to our world and our environment.
In a nutshell, during the 40 hour period, you are allowed to use 40 litres of water ONLY.
ABC Australia have organised the 40 HOUR DROUGHT for 7 am Wednesday 21st March till 11pm Thursday 22nd March.
I encourage everyone to participate in this opportunity, not only will it help our environment for the 40 hour period, it may also encourage us to look harder at what we are doing.
Although registering is optional, I encourage you to do so, go to the following link:
Really Long Link
…. No long showers, no forgetting to turn the back sprinkler off, no dishwasher and especially no wasting water during this time…come on! It can’t be that hard, more and more people, FAMILIES are forced to live like this - and worse.
Don’t forget to spread the word about this, we only have a couple of days, so copy and paste this link to all in our address book.
Tracie
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WELL.............Hope you have registered and prepared yourself for the challenge! This should be a great initiative for us all.....a real eye opener.......
28/03/07
How did you go?
I am ashamed to say our house failed dismally.
I am so treeibly embarrassed by this. I thought it would be easy for us to do. We are so great at conserving water, recycling where we can and truly enjoying it.
For 2 days prior to the start date, we had rain in our area..a drourgh for years and It rains for 2 days right now! We had a huge basket of washing and I wasn’t too stressed thinking we would get by. Next thing my daughter gets sick with bronchitis and must have caught an extra bug as she needed to spend most of the night in the toilet. So then there was the accident in her bed and in her pyjamas – more washing and this is the sort of washing that can’t just sit for a few day, and of course, the shower in the middle of the night and the next morning, so in the first 12 hours I failed. The next day, being so tired from caring for my sick daughter and washing all day, I overflowed the kitchen sink – I never do this! I just walked away and forgot about what I was doing.
If there were a worse case experience this would be it.
I am sure you know how I feel with this, I was so excited and desperately wanted to support such a great cause and it just didn’t work.
I am not going to let this stop me from making an effort every day and I do know I have to create ways of dealing with such situation which will still conserve water and protect our environment.
Now, this is a great idea!
Based on the traditional 40 Hour Famine, the “40 HOUR DROUGHT” asks us to take a serious look at our water usage and what it's doing to our world and our environment.
In a nutshell, during the 40 hour period, you are allowed to use 40 litres of water ONLY.
ABC Australia have organised the 40 HOUR DROUGHT for 7 am Wednesday 21st March till 11pm Thursday 22nd March.
I encourage everyone to participate in this opportunity, not only will it help our environment for the 40 hour period, it may also encourage us to look harder at what we are doing.
Although registering is optional, I encourage you to do so, go to the following link:
Really Long Link
…. No long showers, no forgetting to turn the back sprinkler off, no dishwasher and especially no wasting water during this time…come on! It can’t be that hard, more and more people, FAMILIES are forced to live like this - and worse.
Don’t forget to spread the word about this, we only have a couple of days, so copy and paste this link to all in our address book.
Tracie
..............
...................
.........................
.............................
.........................
....................
..............
WELL.............Hope you have registered and prepared yourself for the challenge! This should be a great initiative for us all.....a real eye opener.......
28/03/07
How did you go?
I am ashamed to say our house failed dismally.
I am so treeibly embarrassed by this. I thought it would be easy for us to do. We are so great at conserving water, recycling where we can and truly enjoying it.
If there were a worse case experience this would be it.
I am sure you know how I feel with this, I was so excited and desperately wanted to support such a great cause and it just didn’t work.
I am not going to let this stop me from making an effort every day and I do know I have to create ways of dealing with such situation which will still conserve water and protect our environment.
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