Dow Live Earth Run for Water, on April 18, 2010 is a series of 6km run/walks taking place over the course of 24 hours in 192 countries, featuring concerts and water education activities to ignite a massive global movement to help solve the water crisis.
Why 6k? The distance represents how far women and children in some developing countries must walk to access clean water.
In the UK there are two runs taking place, one in London and apparently one in Manchester. I’ve attempted a number of times to contact the organisers of the event for Manchester but have had no response – they are even on Facebook!!
It’s a shame the organisers are so disorganised because this would have been very popular if more people knew about it. I first found the information on Runner’s World website.
