Displaying items by tag: Best Practice Guide

Wider use of water recycling is one measure available as a response to the pressures of climate change and population growth, and a spectrum of small scale water recycling plants is now available for study. This project comprises a review of current water quality monitoring technology and its application in a sample of nine small scale water recycling plants.

It is currently unknown how much water installed evaporative air coolers in Victoria waste, however, estimates indicate it could be as high as 3 GL of drinking water per year. The evaporative cooler pilot study undertaken has improved this water efficiency estimate and has developed best practice guidelines to obtain water efficient operation through recommissioning the water management systems on already installed units.

An online plant database for the Barwon Water region was compiled, and to make it accessible to householders and the region's nursery industry, a purpose specific web tool was designed and tested.  The aim was to create effective communication on common drought tolerant garden plants that are closely matched to local soil and weather conditions.

Water is a vital ingredient in many spa treatments and there have been community perceptions that spa's are inefficient and water intensive.

The Australasian Spa Association (ASpa) began a project to develop an industry wide water initiative that would benefit spa operators, customers and the wider community.

Communications and consulting company Arris, which specialises in amenity and production agriculture and environmental risk management, set out to assess the barriers to adoption of recycled water use in the industry and determine its specific needs regarding water reuse and recycled water irrigation schemes.

Once the barriers were determined, Arris aimed to improve the development and adoption of recycled water use by creating a user handbook, training programs and workshops to overcome these barriers.

The car wash industry recognises that it can help reduce the amount of water used in washing cars by helping car wash operators promote the concept of commercial carwashes and showing them ways of attracting new customers.

To achieve their goal of increasing car owners use of commercial car washes from 35 per cent to 60 per cent, the Australian Car Wash Association trialled a Car Wash Water Saver Rating Scheme, with the ultimate aim of helping car owners and the car wash industry to reduce the amount of drinking water used to wash cars.