Marrickville Council has organised another Water Sustainability Urban Design (WSUD) tour in the local area, and we’re one of the stops. The purpose of these tours is to show local residents some of the many ways of saving water. In our case, it’s our water tank, irrigation system, and permaculture garden sufficient to meet our [...]
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Visit our house (and others) on the next Marrickville Council WSUD tour
Posted in Saving the environment, tagged irrigation, marrickville council, water, water tanks, wsud on November 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Water is too cheap
Posted in Saving the environment, tagged efficiency, water on January 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Our last quarterly water bill was $248. This is too cheap. With water rates at this level, there is simply no way of economically justifying any of our water efficiency measures. We’re not very efficient users of water yet. Having moved into a 100-year-old house, there’s plenty of progressive improvements to be made: installation of [...]
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 »
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. [...]
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 [...]
