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Sustainability Directory: Saving and Recycling Water around the Workplace

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Sustainability SEQ Home - For the Business - Saving and Recycling Water around the Workplace

Saving and Recycling Water around the Workplace

Helpful advice on reduced water consumption, and possible ways to recycle water in a business.

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Queensland

Business Water Efficiency Program

Section of the Queensland Water Commission website highlighting a business water efficiency program designed to help companies in South East Queensland save water and adopt sustainable water use practices. Navigational links to further resourceful information, such as water efficiency management plans, home and business water efficiency, and water rebates and restrictions. Also includes a link to the SEQWater website.

http://www.qwc.qld.gov.au/Business+Water+Efficiency+Program

Rural water use efficiency

Section of the Queensland Government's Natural Resources and Water website presenting an efficiency plan to improve water management practices in rural areas. Link to plan's evaluation report.

http://www.nrw.qld.gov.au/rwue/index.html

What businesses can do

Information on the Queensland Water Commission’s website on saving water in the business, including links to management plans, water efficiency programs, and purchasing white goods with high efficiency ratings.
Link to the SEQWater website, by the South East Queensland Water Corporation Limited.

http://www.qwc.qld.gov.au/What+businesses+can+do

Water industry regulation

Section of the Queensland Government's Natural Resources and Water website featuring water industry regulations for water related resources/areas, such as links to guidelines on water supplies, sewage systems, dams, wetlands. For industry and commercial sectors as well as owners/constructors of water resources/areas. Includes links to the current list of water service providers, water authorities and water industry regulation forms.

http://www.nrw.qld.gov.au/compliance/wic/index.html

Water management and use

Section of the Queensland Government's Natural Resources and Water website featuring Queensland government rules and regulations in reguards to water management. This includes navigational links to water trading, water metering, water reform information, overland flow, and resource and distribution operations licences . Further link to the Department of Natural Resources and Water's land and water management plan which promotes sustainable irrigation water-use practices.

http://www.nrw.qld.gov.au/water/management/index.html

Water saving tips

Archive on the Queensland Water Commission’s website featuring several fact sheets on different water saving solutions. These include cost-effective ways to save water, outdoor water saving tips, and home water usage facts. Also included are links to informative web pages on water-use reduction, such as the Brisbane City Council’s Green Choice Gardening webpage, Home WaterWise Service’s webpage advertising a water auditing service, and an interactive website from the Water Corporation featuring a Waterwise House.

http://www.qwc.qld.gov.au/tiki-index.php?page=Water%20saving
%20tips

WaterWise Rebate Schemes

Queensland Government Natural Resources and Water website section featuring information on the Waterwise Rebate Scheme. Details and downloadable factsheets cover all aspects of scheme including what the scheme is, who can apply, the application form, and bathroom, laundry and water holding devices involved. Additional links to the gardens rebate scheme, and media releases.

http://www.nrw.qld.gov.au/water/saverscheme/index.html

National

AWA Fact Sheets

Information pages on the Australian Water Association website covering important issues in water conservation/health, suitable for high school students. Navigational sections include Irrigation Water Use, Desalination, Greywater, Copper (Blue Water) in Pipes, Biosolids, Endocrine Disruptors, Nitrates in Water, Salinity, Fluoride, and a Glossary of water related terms. A few subsections also include links to further topical information.

http://www.awa.asn.au/content/navigationmenu2/aboutwaterand
thewaterindustry/waterfacts/factsheets/default.htm

Being Waterwise

Introductory, water saving information page, on the Water Corporation website. Navigational links to the right of the page includes some areas suitable for upper primary and high school students; Saving Water in your Home, Saving Water in your Garden, Saving Water in your Business, and How to read your water meter. Introductory page also includes a link to an interactive flash page Waterwise House which lets the user click on different locations of a house to find out more about saving water in that location.

http://www.watercorporation.com.au/W/waterwise_index.cfm

Saving water in…

Victorian website Savewater.com.au featuring ways to save water in and around the home, in the business and primary industries, and educational programs, materials and workshops. Further links to programs and events, and ways to save water in the garden.

http://www.savewater.com.au/index.php?sectionid=9

Saving water in education

Section in the savewater.com.au website featuring information and links for school teachers on ways to educate on saving water. Useful navigational links in this subsection include Water conservation programs, Conservation and sustainability (of all essential resources, including water), and Water quality programs. Other navigational links in the savewater.com.au, useful for upper primary and high school students, include Saving water in the; home, garden, business, and primary industries. Pages features tips, information, and even instructional videos in the home section for conserving water.

http://www.savewater.com.au/index.php?sectionid=16

Water and energy efficient products

Product section of savewater.com.au website, featuring a link to an extensive product library of sustainable water and energy devices. Page links also include; information on the Water Efficient Labelling and Standards (WELS) Scheme, water rebate information and links for most Australian states, water saving projects for the home, garden, business, farm, and public places, and hot topics and frequently asked questions from users of the savewater.com.au website. Other navigational links include programs and events for water saving initiatives, and a research and resources section based on saving water.

http://www.savewater.com.au/index.php?sectionid=7

Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards (WELS) Scheme

Australian government website featuring the WELS Scheme, which labels products for their water efficiency, helping Australian households save water and reducing cost. Links to information about WELS for manufacturers and importers, retailers and wholesalers, plumbers and builders, architects and specifiers and consumers.
http://www.waterrating.gov.au/

International

Consumers

Section of the American Environmental Protection Agency website featuring links to simple steps for households to become more water efficient. Contains links to water-saving information sites, and navigational links to saving water in the business, information on water efficient utilities, and information on saving water from a community perspective.

http://www.epa.gov/watersense/tips/cons.htm

How to Clean Up Our Water

Section of American website Natural Resources and Defence Council which features ways to decrease water pollution from activities at home, in the yard, from the car, and in the community. Navigational links to main NRDC water pollution sections covering in-brief and in-depth problems and solutions of water contaminated areas in America.

http://www.nrdc.org/water/pollution/gsteps.asp

Preventing Urban Water Pollution

Section of Shawnee County Conservation District website presenting ways to stop urban pollution from contaminating fresh water supplies.

http://www.cjnetworks.com/~sccdistrict/resubwt.htm

Simple Steps to Save Water

American Environmental Protection Agency website featuring many ways to save water around the home. Navigational links to Public Service Announcements, interactive water saving game, and the benefits of water efficiency.

http://www.epa.gov/watersense/water/simple.htm