Melbourne’s shame list of water wasters

By squirt
December 1st, 2006 @ 7:28 PM Environment, Living in Melbourne, News

The State government has published the list of top wasters of waters in Melbourne by postcode. It seems like the western region tops the list while the outer northern suburb of Doreen is the top water saver suburb. The western suburb by postcode of 3023 consisting of Cairnlea, Deer Park, Burnside, Caroline Springs increased water usage by 20%.

For those interested, the Age has a link to a spreadsheet containing the full list of water usage by postcode. It shows the breakdown of water usage by each household per day in litres. I don’t know where Doreen is but I do know that Caroline Springs is a growing suburb. Therefore the number of household is constantly increasing.

Links
The Age article on Melbourne water usage.
Biggest water wasters.

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3 Comments so far

  1. Neil (unregistered) on December 2nd, 2006 @ 3:33 pm

    Places like Caroline Springs can possibly be explained by new housing but Fitzroy is #2 in water wasters and there definitely isn’t an big increase in housing there.

  2. Simon (unregistered) on December 4th, 2006 @ 10:28 am

    Turn off that so called spring at Caroline Springs!

  3. Neil (unregistered) on December 4th, 2006 @ 3:01 pm

    haha


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