News - Environment

More than ten years ago, I attended a meeting of the GCC where the suggestion was made that all new developments should provide households with two water supplies.

It was suggested that one supply could be for drinking water and one supply could be for toilet flushing, washing etc; and garden watering.

At the time it was considered by the government representatives that this option would be too expensive to install.

Although there has been considerable development since then, there is still more than two-thirds of Gungahlin yet to be developed. New home owners are required to expend a considerable amount of money to install tanks, pumps and other infrastructure, not to mention the costs to run and maintain the pumping system.

Maybe it is time to explore every option in relation to water usage, storage and utilisation.

There also needs to be consideration given to cost efficiencies for the people who are building new homes. The amount of money expended on installing tanks etc, may be reduced or more efficiently used by installing the additional water pipes required to provide each home with a dual water supply, even if this amount is added to the cost of the block.