Last week South Australia celebrated Water Week. As a previous resident in the driest state on the driest continent, water and water conservation was drilled into us from a young age. The current water restrictions in many states pale into insignificance compared to living on a farm with limited water supplies.

Geeks for Good is a thought-seed planted by Cameron Reilly on G’Day world 299, and his subsequent call-out to the Podcasting world at podcampperth.

Two previous school associates, Dr Paul Dalby and Chris Hobart — along with a former work colleague, Mike Seyfang; have taken the power of the internet, borrowed an idea from WebJam and created Water PitchFest.

Using flickr, twitter, youtube, blogging, rss and podcasting — getting the story out about water projects.

The litmus tests: comments, emails, project executions but most importantly connections.