Polluting a Water Resource Game

Fun and interactive game that involves participants running to get their share of water, in the process they understand how water is wasted, polluted and distributed amongst the different sectors (agriculture, industry and household)

Game Mechanics

Participants will have to collect as much water as possible into their buckets in 10 seconds over 5 rounds.

Participants will be divided into four groups, with one WESC leader each.

1. The leader will have one large container with water till the brim in the centre of a large room.
2. Participants will stand one 2 meters away from the bucket making a circle.
3. Each participant will have a small container in front of them and a sponge in their hand.
4. Leader will give each participant a sponge. The largest size represents water used in agriculture, the second represents water in industry and the smallest represents water in households.
5. Leader will blow the whistle and using the sponge participants will collect as much water as they can using the sponge into their container.
6. Leader will blow whistle again and will brief about what happened.
Leader discusses that the agriculture got the most water, but also if they look at the trail on the floor the agriculture also had the most waste. Leader will discuss that households have the least water.
7. Leader will then place a drop on each sponge and tell participants to wash in their basins.
8. Participants will then take turns to empty half the water back to the main container.
9. Leader will add more water to represent rain.
10. Leader will take a sample of water labeled 1970.
11. Repeat several times until 2010.
12. Leader will compare with participants at the end the difference from one year to another.
Leader will show how pollution will increase over the years and that the water from the resource which may be the Nile is actually decreasing over the years.