The Water Wise Awards program is about two things; recognition and shared learning. Moreover, 2010 will be the inaugural year for a new and pre-eminent award: the Prime Minister’s Water Wise Award – for water efficiency excellence by commercial and industrial water users.
In Australia alone, approximately 800 million single-use nappies are delivered to landfill sites every year, and they may take up to 500 years to degrade. That’s over 2 million every day! Amounting to 110,000 tonnes of solid waste yearly, or nearly 60 Olympic-size pools full!
Australians consume an amazing 4.4 million tonnes of paper and paper products each year – that’s 200kg each! “Given the seriousness of the climate change issue and the limited supply of our natural resources, it is not sustainable for us to continue as a paper-heavy and paper-reliant society,” said Sean Barrett, of Planet Ark.
Victoria’s students from Glen Waverley South Primary School have proved they are Australia’s future eco warriors after beating more than 400 schools and handing in 97kg of mobile phones and accessories for recycling, to become the national winner of the 2009 MobileMuster ‘Old Phones, New Fence Posts’ Schools Recycling Challenge.
Inability to provide safe water and adequate sanitation services to all people has been humanity’s greatest social failure of the last 100 years. Moreover the continuous growth of world population and contamination problems are driving us to a dark future. As no creature can live without clean water, what can be done to address the crisis?
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In Australia alone, approximately 800 million single-use nappies are delivered to landfill sites every year, and they may take up to 500 years to degrade. That’s over 2 million every day! Amounting to 110,000 tonnes of solid waste yearly, or nearly 60 Olympic-size pools full! 
Victoria’s students from Glen Waverley South Primary School have proved they are Australia’s future eco warriors after beating more than 400 schools and handing in 97kg of mobile phones and accessories for recycling, to become the national winner of the 2009 MobileMuster ‘Old Phones, New Fence Posts’ Schools Recycling Challenge.
Inability to provide safe water and adequate sanitation services to all people has been humanity’s greatest social failure of the last 100 years. Moreover the continuous growth of world population and contamination problems are driving us to a dark future. As no creature can live without clean water, what can be done to address the crisis?
