When we put in our water tank early last year, we received a rebate from Marrickville Council, which was much appreciated. This also started a dialogue with the water folks at the Council. As a result of this, I agreed to become a “Sustainable Water Ambassador”, and the details on this have just gone live. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘water tank’
Becoming a sustainable water ambassador
Posted in Saving the environment, tagged ambassador, marrickville, marrickville council, water, water tank on January 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Rainwater harvesting workshop
Posted in Saving the environment, tagged rainwater, rebates, water tank on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I attended an interesting workshop this evening on rainwater harvesting, presented by John Caley, a sustainability consultant. This was organised as part of the Marrickville Council water tank rebate program. A few notes from the evening: It makes sense to connect as many uses as possible to the tank, because that will leave more space [...]
Water tank
Posted in Saving the environment, tagged water, water tank on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
One of the first jobs in the new house was to organise the installation of a rainwater tank. The main goal was ensuring that we could have the garden we wanted, watered when we wanted, regardless of drought conditions. A water tank would also reduce our overall water usage, and plumbing into the washing machine [...]
