Australia has a water report card of sorts from a survey undertaken by The Australian.
"Since the introduction of water restrictions, households in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane have saved 1.1 trillion litres of water -- as much as Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane together used in 2006-07.
In 2006-07, the biggest reduction, in percentage terms, was in southeast Queensland, where residents were limited to 140 litres each a day starting in April last year. This week, the Queensland Water Commission said water use in the state's southeast had been less than that target for more than seven months."
The Australian article yesterday:
However, using a broad rule of thumb, Clarence Valley residents and visitors used an estimated 247 litres of water per person yesterday and I suspect that the rest of the NSW North Coast has a similar consumption pattern.
Let's all try to do better for the remainder of 2008.
North Coast Water online:
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