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Sustainability Directory: Saving and Recycling Water

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Saving and Recycling Water

Information and articles on effectively saving and recycling water, including current water recycling issues.

Links categorised by region...

Queensland
National
International

Queensland

Purified Recycled Water, Making the facts clear

Information on purified recycled water in the section of the Queensland Water Commission website, as well as the Queensland government’s decisions to add recycled water to drinking supplies as part a security/supply plan. Links to further information on the Queensland Water Commission website include recycling of waste water, the article of when the Queensland Premier announced the recycled water decision, and the government’s Western Corridor Recycled Water Project.

http://www.qwc.qld.gov.au/Purified+recycled+water

Water Restrictions

Queensland government restrictions on household and commercial water usage, featured on the Queensland Water Commission’s website, as a way to reduce water depletion. Links to water restriction fact sheets, and household rebates and business incentives to save water.

http://www.qwc.qld.gov.au/tiki-index.php?page=Water+restrictions

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/Water+saving+tips

What are you doing?

Information on the Queensland Water Commission’s website on saving water around the home, including in the garden, from taps, dishwashers, and washing machines. Links to water restriction and rebate information, ‘water wise’ planting in the garden, online house ‘water efficiency’ testing form, and water efficiency labelling.

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

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+households+can+do

National

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

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/

Watertube – An Overview

Product website featuring Watertube, a water saving and plant protection device for young trees in their early/immature stages of growth. The water-filled barrier is also reusable and fully recyclable.

http://www.watertube.com.au/index.html

What You Can Do, Water

Section on 1° website displaying ways which people can save water around their homes, as well as facts on water usage in Australia.

http://www.1degree.net.au/what_you_can_do/water

International

Save Water 49 Ways

Web page on American Water & Energy Savers website providing tips on multiple ways to save water generally, indoors, and outdoors.

http://www.americanwater.com/49ways.htm

Tips for saving water inside your home.

You can make a difference.

Section on the LCRA website on saving water around the home, including an online tour of the areas of a house, and a downloadable fact sheet on household leak detection and repair.

http://www.lcra.org/water/tips.html