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Water saving tips, water saving products and water saving ideas.
Save water with biodegradable water retaining foam
Fytogreen produce biodegradable water saving foam products for use in pot plants and garden beds. These foam products improve water retention in your soil, decreasing the amount of water you use and frequency of watering. Check out the Fytogreen website for product details.
Read more →Shower Buckets
A more convenient bucket for collecting your shower water or for bucketing out the kids bath water is this collapsible bucket from Ripple Products. It collapses to conveniently store in the bathroom. Instead of scooping up the water with a conventional bucket, the Ripple bucket is able to be fully submerged. No more trips out [...]
Read more →Grey water for Gardens
The H2grO Greywater for Gardens irrigation system allows you to use your water twice. Greywater from the shower or laundry is sent to the garden via the diverter and irrigation pods. Check out the website for details.
Read more →Recirculated Shower System
According to their website, The Quench shower system can save you massive amounts of water at home by recycling your shower water while you shower. You can have nice long hot showers without the guilt and only use 4 litres of water. Visit the Quench website for details.
Read more →Save water, use less electricity
An interesting article in The Age detailing the massive amounts of water used to create electricity. Check out the article – Save precious water at the flick of a switch.
Read more →Waterless Car Wash
So Brilliant Waterless Car Wash is biodegradable, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, non-toxic, silicone free and 100% environmentally safe. It’s a spray on water-less application that you gently rub in and wipe off. Check out the So Brilliant website for details.
Read more →Drought Tolerant Plants
Melbourne Water has a great Water Wise Plants page on their conserve water website to help you find trees, shrubs, and ground cover plants that are drought tolerant. You can search for the 25 or 50 most drought tolerant plants and sort by plant type. A great little resource to help the water wise gardener.
Read more →Save Paper and water – Get a fax to email service
Producing paper takes a LOT of water. Using my very simple maths, based on figures from Friends of The Earth, it takes at least 250 litres of water to produce a ream or 500 sheets of A4 paper. Generally, we don’t use a lot of paper in our office, however, the old fax machine used [...]
Read more →NewWater – Greywater Systems & Water Tanks
NewWater offer a great range of Rain Water tanks and an Aqua Reviva greywater systems. Their range of tanks include: slimline tanks in-slab tanks under-house tanks Check out their website for more.
Read more →Sustainable Gardening Australia
Sustainable Gardening Australia has some great resources for helping to keep your garden green. Visit the SGA forum for heaps of great tips like sodium free soap and drought tolerant plants.
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