“Like water, be gentle and strong. Be gentle enough to follow the natural paths of the earth, and strong enough to rise up and reshape the world.” – Brenda Peterson
A nice quote, to me it says - be gentle to our planet like water can be, be gentle to water itself. But be strong enough to change your habits to protect water and Earth, and strong enough to encourage others to do the same.
What do you think?
Posted: December 31st, 2007 under general, nature's gift.
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With stage 3a water restrictions in place across
You can’t water your garden on Monday, Thursday or Friday.
If your house number is odd, you can water on Sunday or Wednesday.
If your house number is even or you don’t have a house number, you can water on Saturday or Tuesday.
Whatever day you can water on, you can only water by hose/bucket/watering can/manual watering system* between 6 am and 8 am, or by an automatic watering system between midnight and 2 am.
Note that if anyone over 70 years lives in your house, you may manually water between 6am and 8 am OR 8 am and 10 am on the specified days.
You can not water your lawn with tap water AT ALL. Recycled or tank water is allowed, of course.
For a full set of the water restrictions, please visit www.ourwater.vic.gov.au
* A drip watering system can be used only if it uses less than 9 litres per hours for each lineal metre of hose
Posted: December 30th, 2007 under gardening, general, saving water.
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Younger children may be interested in our colouring in pages - just download them from our site, print and let the kids have fun with Mr & Mrs Droplet.
They may also enjoy a water based memory game called TipTank (can they keep the tank filled by selecting the right pairs?)
Yarra Valley water also provides some activities for juniors & seniors on their website.
See if the older kids can meet the challenge of 100 ways to save water in 30 days activities.
Posted: December 29th, 2007 under general.
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From everyone at Precious Water, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a successful 2008.
Stay safe, save water and enjoy yourself.
Posted: December 25th, 2007 under general.
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There has been a huge amount of rain hitting Melbourne and southern Victoria over the last two days - what are you doing to collect any of it?
It may not have been possible to get a tank in when you saw the rains coming (which is a pity as it probably would have filled a number of times!) but that doesn’t mean you can’t make the most of that water…
Posted: December 21st, 2007 under collecting water, general, nature's gift, saving water.
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If you run a business, do you make any attempts to make it a green business? For instance, Precious Water uses a green courier company for delivery of FlexiTanks to minimise the impact of our tanks and we recycle everything we can.
The February edition of the Business Mums Magazine will have an environmental theme, and we will be contributors to the magazine, too. It always has easy-to-read short articles so even the busiest of us can find time to read them!
Leading up to that edition, the Business Mums Network is running a survey about green businesses- we’re fascinated to see what the results will be as we’re not sure how much small business owners consider the environment within their business.
And while we’re on the topic of green behaviour, Save Time Online is running a survey about green shopping that should also provide some interesting results.
Posted: December 20th, 2007 under general, green products.
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While this isn’t specifically about water, the speech made in this video is powerful and carries an important message about protecting our planet, our world.
We like to think that helping Victorians and Australains to conserve water we are doing something positive, but Severn Suzuki reminds us there is much more to be done. We thank her and share her speech with you.
Posted: December 13th, 2007 under general, nature's gift.
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Like for any burn, the first thing to do with sunburn is put it under running cold water to pull out the heat of the burn.
I hate to admit that our daughter got sunburnt last week - she was sunscreened but her top rode up as she rode her bike and foudn the spot we had missed. Instead ofputting her in a cold shower, we stood her in the middle of a garden bed and hosed her back 
It helped her sunburn and watered some plants - so although we technically watered the garden out of restriction times, it was better than putting her in the shower.
Posted: December 7th, 2007 under gardening, general, saving water.
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Years ago, everyone had a Hills Hoist in their backyard - usually somewhere in the middle of the yard over the lawn.
Now days, people have clothes lines of all sorts of sizes and styles, including many that are removed or folded away when not in use. But where is your line?
A clothes line over a paved area is easier to work from - no soggy grass to sink into as you hang washing - but it doesn’t make much use of any drips or humidity (the moisture in the air from water evaporating from your wet clothes). Whereas hanging clothes over a lawn or garden can create a little extra moisture for the soil and plants underneath.
Especially if you reduce the spin cycle time on your washing machine to use less power and let clothes drip a bit on the garden.
If moving the clothes line is a bit much to conserve a little water, you can hang clothes on a clothes horse and move it around different parts of the garden to help water them.
Posted: December 6th, 2007 under general, saving water.
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We Love Water.
We Thank Water.
We Respect Water.
We Are All Water.
We Are All One.
by Masaru Emoto, Messages from Water
Water is precious and essential. We respect and save water as part of our thanks.
Posted: December 4th, 2007 under general, nature's gift.
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