Jades presentation of her WaterWise project

1. Being Water Wise
By Jade Howgate

2. 60% of Perth's water is
groundwater from
underground aquifers.
Superficial aquifers hold
water quite close to the
surface to supply the roots of
trees and plants with water.
The Leederville aquifer holds
water further down. Beyond
this is the Yarragadee aquifer,
Perth households use an average of 276 although, the water
kilolitres of water a year - double that of corporation is the main user
Melbourne and Brisbane. of this aquifer. This aquifer is
hundreds of metres below
ground level, and holds more
than 1000 cubic kilometres of
water.

3. Readings
Week 1
6/08/2012 morning 5093459
afternoon 5093550 Consumption from
evening 5093873 night until morning
176
Water
7/08/2012 morning 5094049
afternoon 5094285
evening 5094603
216
8/08/2012 morn
after
even
5094819
5095038
5095337
Readings
184
9/08/2012 morn 5095521
after 5095721
even 5096027
331
10/08/2012 morn 5096358
after 5096521
even 5096807
260
11/08/2012 morn 5097067
after 5097328
even 5097753
210
12/08/2012 morn 5097963
after 5098161
even 5098479

4. week 2
16/08/2012 morning Readings
5100511
Consumption from
afternoon 5100720
night until morning
Week 2
evening 5100870
175
17/08/2012 morning 5101184
afternoon 5101218
evening
18/08/2012 morning
5101532
5101739
207
Water
Readings
afternoon 5101834
evening 5102278
184
19/08/2012 morning 5102462
afternoon 5102681
evening 5102821
212
20/08/2012 morning 5103033
afternoon 5103276
evening 5103291
143
21/08/2012 morning 5103434
afternoon 5103684
evening 5103832
213
22/08/2012 morning 5104045
afternoon 5104280
evening 5104312

5. Action Plan!
As a family, we decided that we would aim to reduce our water usage by
at least 10% . I think we can achieve this and follow our action plan .
We decided our action plan was going to be;
Turn off all taps when they are not in use
Have shorter showers
Always use water efficient setting on dishwasher and
washing machine.
We decided we wanted to focus on cutting down our water
usage during the evening because this is when we use the
most water.

6. week 3
Readings
1/09/2012 morning 5115349 Consumption from
afternoon
evening
5115529
5115612
night until morning
212
Week 3
Water
2/09/2012 morning 5115824
afternoon 5115943
evening 5116023
264
3/09/2012 morning
afternoon
evening
5116287
5116423
5116597
Readings
158
4/09/2012 morning 5116755
afternoon 5116898
evening 5117020
179
5/09/2012 morning 5117199
afternoon 5117278
evening 5117345
132
6/09/2012 morning 5117477
afternoon 5117591
evening 5117714
183
7/09/2012 morning 5117897
afternoon 5117921
evening 5118073

7. Our families average
daily consumption
188 L 209 L
I didn’t have to change my action plan,
although, we had new grass laid mid
way through my water metre readings,
and it had to be watered regularly so
this added to our water usage.
“it was interesting to see how much water we
On average, our family used 9% used and I was surprised at how much we did
less water per day. use! And the action plan was good to do
because then we could see how much we
were saving”
I think our action plan went well, we were just short of our target of saving 10%
each day. We put a timer in the shower and all remembered to turn the taps off.

8.  3.4 million people die each year from water
related illnesses
 That almost the entire city of Los Angeles
 1 billion people have no access to clean water
 5’000 children and babies die each day from
water related illnesses
 Every 19 seconds, a mother loses a baby due to a
water related illness
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9. Although this project is over, I have learnt a lot about how
different people use water, and how some of us may take
our accessibility and standard of water for granted. As a
family we will continue to save water and understand the
luxury of clean water.