Guess what! We’re recruiting Aqua Ambassadors for America!

We’re recruiting Aqua Ambassadors for America!

If you’ve read the All About Water book and have played the online games and dabbled with our
activities, then, believe me, you know more about water than gazillion people in the entire country.

Yes, it’s true.

Here’s what you already know:

• Keeping the faucet open while brushing teeth or scrubbing dishes is pure wastage
• Leeks should be reported
• It needs water to make anything and everything, especially electricity, meat, and produce.

You’ll soon figure out that your family, friends, relatives, and their friends and relatives do not know all
of these three points.

Since you are one cool, savvy, charged up aware person, we’ll recruit you right away!

“I’m All Charged Up for my Leadership Role.”

Top leaders lead by example.

As a leader your first responsibility will be to be a walking talking example of a waste-free consumer of this vital resource.

Doing the right thing is like modeling the perfect behavior for others.

You do the right thing and the whole world follows you. It’s kind of a homework, right? It’s fun being a leader, but not always easy. Others are watching you and respecting you for what you do. You feel the responsibility and that helps you stay motivated to do the right thing. This way you inspire the others.

Now here’s what you can do.

Chalk out a plan about your model behavior. Write down a few pledges you’ll follow to the T. Brainstorm ideas about what to say to others around you—something short and sweet about the reasons behind your action. For example, you could say, “I close the faucet while brushing my teeth because it took a lot of effort to supply clean water. I must try not to waste it.”
You could also explain at the buffet lunch with friends and family that you take on your plate only as much as you can handle and then come back for more if you’re still hungry. “That way, I’m not wasting food. It takes tons of water to produce food, especially meat.” Since you’re talking about your positive behavior, it makes you… drumroll!!!! …

An Official spokesperson of the AquaSquad Team! Go Squad!

If you like art, you could create posters, slogans, and greetings cards.
And maybe even compose lyrical rhymes about saving precious fresh water.
Wow! You’re one cool rockin’-n-rollin’ leader on your Aqua journey forward!

Share your songs, slogans, and posters with us here.

What to do when you see a wrong water habit?

It’s very important how you react when you see someone is not doing the best in a situation. Often, how you react decides your success as a leader.
Do you jump up and holler like T-rex?
Or do you throw a fit hoping your meltdown will change the other person forever?
Or do you roll your eyes like even Clifford, the red dog, would do it better?
Well, as you may have figured out by now, that none of the above styles make a good leader. People soon stop listening to them, they even stop copying the great modeling that they do.
That pretty much ends the leader’s capacity, unless they’re ready to change.

Teaching patiently and with correct information is the best way, always.

Showing others, how to do the right thing and sharing the right information is very crucial.
Besides modeling, it needs patient listening and then an elaborate, informative sharing. Once they know
the “why” and the “how” from you. 

You may want to share our AquaTips Ebook free download information with everyone. We have some
fantastic ideas in there. [the blue fonts are hyperlinked to the Aquatips inner page]

Here are a few things you can do in your family:

• One sure shot way to start is to share the AquaTips Ebook with your family. Have a family
  meeting to discuss which tip each member could relate to and chalk out a job-chart where each
  member will help to keep an eye on that.

That way, different members can take care of the whole gamut of water usage. For example, dad can opt for watching over sprinkler use while mom can promise to run fully loaded dishwashers and washing machines. A big sister can keep a note on who’s taking how long at the shower.

• Analyzing the water bill is another great activity that can make your family think and brainstorm
  areas where you can cut down water wastage even more. Every month you will make note of
  the total usage and how you’ve spent your money on bills that could well have been in our
  wallets if you were more watchful over wastage.

Here are a few things to do with your friends:

• The same thing that your creative self liked doing by yourself can be more fun with friends. Create posters, slogans, greetings cards, and poems on saving water.
• Start a music band to sing your own songs to spread the message about how much we need to care about water.
• Start a wall magazine or a digital newsletter with the help of a few adults to reach out to many people about the problems we are facing with water and the solutions you propose or share from other great resources.

Here are a few things to do in the neighborhood: Make sure you take a parent or an adult you all trust
along with you when you talk to strangers.

• Once you’ve created a flyer or slogan, make a few copies and distribute it to your neighbors. If it’s around holidays, you can suggest they take a resolution or a pledge on one smart action.
• Discuss an idea to reach out to the local businesses and PTO parents about saving water in your area. For example you can request all of them to call 311 or install the app on their phone and inform them each time they spot a leak in the neighborhood or on a school or park grounds. When you all stand up to take a oath towards that goal, we bet you’ll get goosebumps all over.
• A presentation to the Leasing office or at the weekend coffee meets and leaving flyers with water-saving tips will work great to get the entire community involved over time.
• Home Owners’ Associations of neighborhood communities are usually very active and meet every month. Approaching them for a presentation to motivate all participants of the meeting to take a pledge, followed by an oath, will go a big way.

Did you say you have another idea? We’d love to learn from you!

We can imagine you bustling with new leadership ideas. Sure you have tons of things to do, and share, and teach. Or you may have done something special already.

Kudos to you for that.

We can’t wait to hear all about it straight from the leader’s mouth!

Share your unique ideas in the message box below and we will soon post them here after our team of
editors go over them. If you have a video link of you in action, we’d love to see that and share right here.

Let’s build up a gallery of leadership activities that you’ve done or are planning. Don’t forget to send
pictures that are approved by your parents.