Action alert: march to End Water Poverty

Just a fraction of the river unravelled in Bracknell.

Credit: WaterAid / Craig Carruthers

We are very pleased to announce news of our first major End Water Poverty event: a march to Downing Street using the knitted river!

Date: 11am Saturday 12 May

Assembly point: Glasshouse Walk, on the edge of Spring Gardens, near Vauxhall Station

(Please check back to this page for updates about the day.)

We are currently lobbying the G8 to put water and sanitation on this year's agenda. This still has not been done despite the thousands of postcards sent by our supporters to the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, this year's G8 president.

So, as our final push, we have decided to take the knitted river or 'knitition' (knitted petition) to Downing Street on 12 May.

From Spring Gardens near Vauxhall station we will march a distance of approximately a mile with the river to Whitehall and Downing Street.

At Spring Gardens, we will have an open top double decker bus (covered in the river) waiting to hand out sections. The march will leave Glasshouse Walk at around 11.30am and will disperse between 1pm and 2pm at Whitehall.

It should be a really exciting day so please invite all the people you know. We need as many supporters as possible to be part of the historic moment when we carry the river through central London to the UK Government and demand they act to End Water Poverty. Please email us to confirm your attendance if possible.

The river is truly a wondrous spectacle, it is now longer than the Empire State building is tall. We hope you can join us to march to Downing Street to End Water Poverty on 12 May.