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IMAGINE4: World Water Week
So, World Water Day? I can improve on that. Let's make it World Water Week.
Water is one of the world's most valuable resources and it's crucial that we try to conserve it as much as possible. While many people have that idea stuck somewhere in the back of their head, they rarely do much to act on it. So, how do you get the population to take notice of this and actually act on it?
Take a cue from EVOKE and turn it into a competitive game—with a little shocker to get people motivated Here's the plan of action.
- Create a World Water Week website (alliteration!). Spread the word. Get lots of people to sign up and create some buzz about it.
- Distribute ShowerDrops to the participants. The Showerdrop is an awesome little device that unobtrusively monitors water usage through any drain in your house.
- Once the week starts, ask all participants to go outside for a minute and look at their water meter. Enter the reading on the site.
- Live your life for a few days. If you want to get into it, put the Showerdrop in your shower, your sink, or toilet connection; put the readings on the site if you want.
- Take a look at your water meter again. Enter the number on the site. Calculations happen behind the scenes and a water consumption leaderboard is generated. Calculations are weighted (the fact that you have 4 people in your house doesn't significantly affect your score vs. that guy over there who lives alone).
- "WHAT? My family uses 180 gallons of water a day? That's way more... look, that guy only uses 130!" (It's true; I've done all of this before.)
- Challenge people to reduce their water usage. Those who reduce the most might win some prizes...
- One more trip out to the water meter at the end of the week. More behind the scenes calculations, and...
- "Wow, I reduced my water consumption by 15% just by <using dishwasher when full/combining laundry loads/low flow toilet/etc>! And according to this site, that will save me $75 over the next 18 months... this isn't so bad after all."
- When the week is over, show how much water everyone's collectively saved as a bit of a "you've done well, congratulations!".
If you're curious, this is World Water Week game is loosely based on an assignment we had at school—a thumbs up to my teachers for being so timely. Because of this, I have an entire writeup of what I did when adhering to this plan. I was able to reduce usage by about 20 gallons per week, so who knows what an entire community of dedicated people could do?
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