End Water Poverty emerges from the Glasto mud...
The End Water Poverty banner
Credit: WaterAid / Matt Simpson
After days of unforgiving mud, torrential rain and fantastic music, End Water Poverty enjoyed a successful weekend of campaigning at the Glastonbury Festival.
With issues of drinking water, hygiene and sanitation at the front of everyone's minds, the Festival provided End Water Poverty with the perfect campaigning platform to call for water and sanitation for all.
Festival-goers were urged to add their signature to the campaign, increasing pressure on governments to prioritise spending on water and sanitation. Volunteers worked flat out to collect more than 12,000 signatures over the weekend - an amazing achievement considering the conditions!
The signatures collected also counted towards the I Count campaign, which encourages people to take action on climate change.
Celebrities pledging their support included Mark Owen, Andrew Marr, Ana Matronic from the Scissor Sisters, Phill Jupitus and Stephen Merchant.
The End Water Poverty hand
Credit: WaterAid / Matt Simpson
Our End Water Poverty transfers were also popular, with several celebs sporting them as essential Glastonbury attire, before adding their thumbprints and signatures to the End Water Poverty giant hand.
And those who watched Glastonbury coverage on TV will have seen the distinctive End Water Poverty flag and foam hands waving enthusiastically from the crowd.
To see what else End Water Poverty / WaterAid volunteers got up to at the festival, and for more pictures, log onto www.wateraid.org/glasto.
Endnotes
For more information and pictures, please email Kate Watson on katewatson@wateraid.org or call 020 7793 4793.