Web Resources

General sites

Melbourne Water and Melbourne Water's Education Website - just follow the links
www.melbournewater.com.au

Creating Waterwise Gardens
http://conservewater.melbournewater.com.au/content/plants/

Melbourne's Water Retailers provide useful educational resources and information.

City West Water
www.citywestwater.com.au

South East Water
www.southeastwater.com.au

Yarra Valley Water
www.yvw.com.au

Green Plumbers
www.greenplumbers.com.au
Melbourne Water supports this program in training plumbers in water efficient practices.

EPA Victoria and their Water Use Efficiency Program
www.epa.gov/owm/water-efficiency/

Sustainability Victoria
www.sustainability.vic.gov.au

Other sites on specific topics

The NASA website contains many interesting articles for students to investigate. The following are relevant to water conservation:

Eating and drinking in Space
http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/kids/L&W/eatdrink.htm

Personal hygiene
http://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/kids/L&W/hygiene.htm

Food system and dining
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/shutref/crew/food.html

Personal hygiene provisions
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/shutref/crew/hygiene.html

Supply and waste water
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/shutref/orbiter/eclss/water.html

Waste collection system
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/shutref/orbiter/eclss/wcs.html

Waste water tank
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/reference/shutref/orbiter/eclss/wastewater.html

Water on the space station
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/living/factsheets/water.html

To distill some water
This fact-filled science fiction tale, based on Jack London's short story To Build a Fire describes an astronaut's urgent search for something to drink on Mars.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2002/09aug_marstale.htm

Rationing and recycling will be an essential part of life on the International Space Station. In this article, Science@NASA explores where the crew will get their water and how they will (re)use it.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast02nov_1.htm

Recycling grey water at home (Envirosink)
http://www.envirosink.com/about.html
http://www.envirosink.com/drawing.html

From Toilet to Tap. Engineers Seek to Conserve by Recycling Urine
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/waterreuse020827.html

Water Recycling and Reuse: The Environmental Benefits
http://www.epa.gov/region9/water/recycling/index.html

High efficiency toilets
http://www.epa.gov/owm/water-efficiency/toilets.htm

Water Saver Home - House tour. This tour has lots of useful information.
http://www.h2ouse.net/

Water Wiser Drip Calculator
http://www.waterwiser.org

Water heaters. How they work.
http://popularmechanics.com/home_improvement/how_it_works/1997/9/water_heaters/

Green Home - Water Conservation. This page features a number of natural products eg dishwasher soap, laundry detergents which are low polluting.
http://www.nwf.org/backyardwildlifehabitat/greenhomewater.cfm

The ECO Design Greywater Recycling System (GRS) is a low cost and low maintenance greywater treatment and distribution system for irrigating the plants and trees in your garden.
http://www.greywater.com.au/

Purplemath - Your Algebra Resource. An interesting Mathematics problem related to bath tubs.
http://www.purplemath.com/modules/workprob.htm

How things work - laundry. Simple Chemistry of Soap; Water Softening; Detergents; Bleaches and Enzymes; Brighteners and Fabric Softeners; Detergent Additives; Dry Cleaning
http://www.lsw.com/htw/

How tankless hot water systems work.
http://www.tankless.com/

Water Science for Schools.
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/index.html

How a toilet works.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/toilet.htm

How a front-loading washing machine saves water.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/framed.htm?parent=washer.htm&url=http://www.eren.doe.gov/roofus/washing.html