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Solutions to Water Issues

Information and advice on current and future water related problems.

Links categorised by region...

Queensland
National
International

Queensland

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

Waterwatch: Monitoring and Data

Webpage of Waterwatch Queensland website offering a monitoring process to keep the health of Queensland waterways in check. Aspects of monitoring include Physical and chemical parameters, biological parameters, and contacts for the pollution hotline. Links to the Waterwatch database, various water quality equipment suppliers, and the Environmental Protection Agency website.

http://www.qld.waterwatch.org.au/monitoring/index.html

Waterwatch: Saltwatch

Webpage of Waterwatch Queensland website offering a salinity monitoring program the public can be involved in. Links to a salinity section on the Queensland government's Natural Resources and Water website. Navigational links to Saltwatch maps, dataforms, and instructions and downloads of how to get involved.

http://www.qld.waterwatch.org.au/saltwatch/index.html

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+businesses+can+do

National

About Water

Section of website sponsored by the South Australian Government and South Australia Central featuring water saving solutions. Subcategories include information on conserving water, statistics on water consumption, and advice on protecting the quality of stormwater and environmental flows. Links to several South Australian and National company and government websites throughout this section.

http://www.watercare.sa.gov.au/water.php

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/

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

Fresh Water

Water article section of the Optimum Population Trust website, displaying indepth the link between water resources, problems and strategies, and the world’s overpopulation. There is also a focus on the United Kingdom. Website also includes another section, titled Links, featuring a list of sites about population, demographics, resources, and environment.

http://www.optimumpopulation.org/opt.more.water.html

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 areas 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