True Blue Water Relief

15/02/2020

Thank you to Rosie from Channel 7 Adelaide who featured True Blue Water Relief again on tonight's news. We are so honoured to be able to help our farmers and we owe it all to our amazing True Blue Water Relief community.

We're in the process of securing the details for the next delivery of water so keep checking in on the page for updates.

Oh ... and how cute are those kids 😍 !!!

06/02/2020

The Springetts' Arcade sponsored water shipment was delivered safe and sound to the Stevenson family last week - just in time as they had just run out of drinking water and a dust storm was just about to roll in. Mark Springett made the journey from Bowral to Pindera Downs to see where his generosity was being received - a hugely impressive effort to say the least!!!

A huge thank you to everyone involved for getting another 24,000 litres of drinking water to drought affected families and communities. We think you're all pretty amazing.

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29/01/2020

155 donors
Over $25,000 raised
96,000 litres of water delivered

HOW GOOD IS THAT!!!

We are beyond grateful and so humbled to have been custodians of your donations in order to get drinking water to drought affected families and communities in need. Thank you to everyone who has donated, shared, commented and talked about Sam's initiative.

4 beautiful families and their neighbours now have free and easy access to drinking water ... a simple and basic human need and right.

Sam has a meeting with a Liberal MP, Fiona Simpson to discuss True Blue Water Relief's work ... the more we talk, the more traction we get.

Stay tuned!

28/01/2020

Another one out of the gates and off to "Pindera Downs" to the Stevenson family. Estimated delivery is around 12pm tomorrow (Thursday 30th January) and we'll be posting updates as the water makes it way to its final destination, 380km north of Broken Hill.

This delivery is all thanks to the incredible generosity of Mark Springett and his team from Springetts' Arcade in Bowral, NSW. Mark saw Sam's Channel 7 TV interview and immediately contacted us with the promise to sponsor an entire shipment of water to a drought affected family. There were so many other causes he could have supported at the time, but he chose to help our farmers, their families and neighbours.

Thanks again Mark.

We cannot wait to see Nic,Ali, Rosie and Ed on the flip side!!

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25/01/2020

Introducing the Stevenson's from Pindera Downs station!!!

"Thanks a lot for what you are doing up here with water, it's probably the best way anyone can help out at the moment, because without drinking water life would be pretty miserable. Myself and my wife Ali, have 2 kids, Rosie is 9 and Ed is 7 so it is important to have clean drinking water for them. We live on a station called "Pindera Downs" which is 380 Km north of Broken Hill, our nearest town is Tibooburra which is 50 Km to the west of us. Our average rainfall is about 9 inches a year, the last decent wide spread rain we had was in December 2016 and in the 3 years since then we have only had 9.5 inches. At this stage we will have 2 neighbours about 50 Km away and 1 from 120 Km away using this water as they have also both run out. We have told all our neighbours about this shipment of water and there are a few that are okay for the next 6 months or so but without any rain they will definitely need some of this water. It will be a huge relief to us and others in the area, we can now stop carting drinking water from town every couple of months. It will be good to have a reliable source of clean drinking water again."

We'll be seeing this beautiful family next Thursday when the Springetts' Arcade sponsored shipment arrives at their station. Another huge thanks to Mark Springett for his incredible generosity - Nic and Ali, along with the True Blue Water Relief team are eternally grateful to you.

See you next Thursday Stevenson's!!! 💧💦💧💦

24/01/2020

So this just happened ...

"We wanted to do something for the people who are in drought affected areas. We saw the news article on Channel 7 before Christmas and thought this was such a good cause and that we'd like to help as the drought just doesn’t seem to end, it’s always there."

And just like that, enough money for another shipment of water was donated. That's $6,680 donated to True Blue Water Relief by Mark Springett from Springetts' Arcade in Bowral, NSW.

But it gets better! Mark is flying to Broken Hill and will be there for the delivery of the next shipment of water. And Kerry from Mark's management team is flying to Adelaide to be present at the loading at Piccadilly. NEXT LEVEL!!!!

The container will be branded with the Springetts' Arcade logo so if you see it on the road next Thursday, be sure to give a toot and a wave of support.

We are beyond grateful to Mark and his team for their incredible generosity and for their compassion and care for our drought affected families.

Thank you Mark ❤️💧💦💧💦

16/01/2020

Another humbling day for True Blue Water Relief as 2 shipments of water were delivered safe and sound 👍

We were so thrilled to see the total joy and happiness on the faces of these deserving, hard working, salt of the earth families.

it has again been a total and utter honour to have worked with all involved, from Bill and Ian at Crystal Springs Water to Adam and Nathan from Hillebrand, Ben and his driver from Pickering Transport, Rosie and Sean from Channel 7, the beautiful hearted Danni who provided the care packages, Shane and Mel Lee who helped "chaperone" the deliveries and provide good humour (although this may be debatable!!) and a friendly face for the families on what is a pretty overwhelming and emotional day.

But most of all we'd like to thank Anny O'Connor and her beautiful dad Jim and Sam and Tennille Siemer and their 4 adorable boys.

You are why we do this.

We'll have some more images and footage to share with you all tomorrow, but for now we can safely say that there are some pretty happy campers approximately 265 km's north of Broken Hill.

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15/01/2020

If you'd like to donate to help get the 5th load of water ready to go, please jump onto our GoFundMe page here.

We are so grateful to each and every one of you who have helped these beautiful and deserving families so far 🙏

Sam Daw True Blue Water Relief My name is Sam Daw, owner of Lavina Wines based in McLaren Vale and the Sunshine Coast. Having years of experience shipping bul