Quick Water Saving Tips in your Garden!

Water your garden before 10:00 in the morning,or after 16:oo in the afternoon,this eliminates a lot of evaporation. Collect grey water from your bath,sinks and laundry and use these for irrigating your garden. You can invest in professionally installed and fully automated grey water recycling system for this purpose. Schedule your garden

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Grey Water Systems reduce water use by 30%

A pilot project to test whether reusing grey water is feasible began about a year ago. Fourteen homes have reuse systems installed,and the city Guelph -  Canada,would like another 16 homeowners to sign on.

Ben Polley is convinced.

The home builder installed a grey water system last year in the Manitoba Street heritage

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We can generate energy but not water!

South Africa is heading for a water deficit of between 17 percent and 30 percent in 2030 –and needs to invest R2.8 billion per year to prevent shortages,according to a global water report.

Its best-case scenario it projects a water shortfall in two decades of 2.9 billion cubic meters,rising to 3.8 billion

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Beijing announces water price hike

The hike in Beijing’s water price aims to encourage conservation and

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recycling in a bid to ease water shortages in the city. By subsidizing low-income residents,officials say the price hike will not impose an excessive financial burden on ordinary people.

Authorities say Beijing is short in water resources. With an average of

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Green Goal for 2010

A new Green Goal 2010 program has been launched in South Africa to make sure that next year’s World Cup event is as environmentally-friendly as possible.

Representatives of the host cities signed the pledge,which states that they will support initiatives which address waste minimisation,emission reduction,energy efficiency and water conservation.

The “greening”initiatives

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Cape facing drought Disaster

The Western Cape is facing its first “full-scale disaster”as a severe drought shows signs of worsening in the Eden District in the southern Cape.

Local government MEC Anton Bredell told journalists in Cape Town on Wednesday that the province has recommended the district be declared a disaster area.

“We are facing a big disaster,”

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When it Rains,it’s Beer!

CUMMING,GA — A company that makes rainwater harvesting equipment has teamed up with an Atlanta micro-brewery to produce what they say is the first micro-brewed beer in the United States to be made entirely with rainwater.

The partnership involves Cumming-based RainHarvest Systems and the 5 Seasons Restaurant and Brewery,which operates three locations in

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