Community resources
Waterwise resources
The resources listed below highlight the value of water and provide tips for the more efficient use of water.
We also have resources targeted for use in school, including a range of lesson plans and activities.
Brochures
- Water’s journey (PDF, 1.0MB): describes water’s journey from source to home, treatment of wastewater and pipe maintenance.
- Detecting leaks and reading your water meter (PDF, 577KB): explains to residents how to check for leaks and read their water meter to reduce water consumption and save money.
- Home water audit (PDF, 742KB): provides WELS star ratings for home appliances with a simple audit checklist and water usage calculator.
- Home waterwise quiz (PDF, 1.0MB): includes a quick and simple quiz enabling residents to easily analyse how they use water around the home.
- How waterwise are you? (PDF, 520KB): provides simple tips on how to conserve water in the home, garden and pool.
- How to be waterwise (PDF, 185KB): a brochure depicting quick tips to save water.
- Residential evaporative air conditioners (PDF, 299KB): explains how to minimise the amount of water used.
- Being waterwise with your swimming pool and spa (PDF, 162KB): provides information about pool covers, maintaining water levels, backwashing, leaks and pool design.
- Rainwater tanks (PDF, 3.4MB): tips and advice on installation and maintenance of household tanks.
- How to be a waterwise gardener (PDF, 564KB).
- Waterwise home gardens and active playing surfaces checklist (PDF, 468KB): use this checklist to water your garden and active playing surfaces, like sporting grounds, efficiently.
- Guidelines for water efficient urban gardens and landscapes (PDF, 1.4MB): provides tips to have a water efficient garden and how to use water efficiently.
- Active playing surfaces (PDF, 687KB): provides tips on planning, installation and maintenance of active playing surfaces.
Animations and videos
- Being waterwise – YouTube video
- How to detect a water leak – YouTube video
- Water’s journey – it takes more than a tap to deliver your water – YouTube video
- Waterwise gardening tips – YouTube video
- Efficient irrigation guidelines – YouTube video
- Costa Georgiadis on efficient irrigation guidelines – YouTube video
Posters
- Water cycle poster (PDF, 4.6MB)
- Total water cycle management poster (PDF, 2.5MB)
- Inland water cycle poster (PDF, 12MB)
- Bucket loads of savings poster (PDF, 1.4MB)
- Whizzy’s water saving tips poster (PDF, 743B)
Books
- Whizzy’s incredible journeys (PDF, 13.9MB): Pick-a-path book that tells about 4 separate journeys in which Whizzy the water drop travels through the water cycle and into the home.
This book is also translated in Thaayorre – a language group of the Wikway people in the Cape York area. - Whizzy’s new adventures: journey through the pipes book (PDF, 3.5MB): A3 book that takes Whizzy on 2 different adventures to help explain how water is treated as it travels to the home and then returns to the environment.
There are also guidelines for use of the Whizzy’s new adventures book (PDF, 1.6MB)
Related links
- Read about how to save water at home.
- Learn how to do waterwise gardening.
- Use these waterwise educational resources in the classroom.
- Find out more about managing water use in your business.
- Read more about water sources in Queensland.