Get Involved - Water Sensitive Community Action

Your Home

You can do so much to help the environment in your own home!!!

De-toxify your house – limit use of harmful chemicals and pesticides etc link www.meetthepollutants.com
Buy ecofriendly detergents – look for ‘NP’ (No Phosphorus) laundry soap and ‘grey water safe’ products
Buy organic meat and vegetables – if the farmers don’t use harmful pesticides and fertilizers then there is a better outcome for the environment (and for you)
Much more water is used to raise animals for consumption than the equivalent calories of vegetables – reducing the amount of meat we eat can have a big impact on how much water is extracted from creeks adjacent to our farms
We should aim to limit food waste in general – better for the wallet / better for the environment
Start looking after some house plants – the right plants can oxygenate your bedroom while you are sleeping giving you a better rest
The more synthetic clothes we buy the more microplastic is released during washing clogging up our creeks – choose natural fibres where you can
Careful what you flush – those ‘flushable’ wet wipes clog our sewerage system
Invest in water saving fixtures

Make everyone gush over your local creak

Join a local catchment care group – Look at what we have done recently at Davidson Street
Some major groups are:
- OCCA – Oxley Catchment Care Association
- SOWN – Save Our Waterways Now – Enoggera / Breakfast Creek
- B4C – Bulimba catchment care group – Bulimba / Norman Creek
More groups are listed on the Habitat Brisbane website https://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/clean-and-green/natural-environment-and-water/biodiversity-in-brisbane/habitat-brisbane

Your garden is the perfect place to start going green

Wash the car on the lawn – put those nutrients in the soap to good use
Plant drought tolerant gardens – your local nursery can help select the best species and use mulch to help retain soil moisture
Put your food scraps in a compost bin and recycle the nutrients – this also increases the water retention of the garden
Be careful of using weed killer before predicted rain – any washoff can really harm the aquatic life in the creeks
Let the grey water from your washing machine irrigate your lawn and keep it green during water restrictions
Sweep your driveway instead of letting that dirt flow into the stormwater drain
Install a raingarden to filter the nutrients from your roof runoff
Dispose of chemicals (oils, paints and solvents) carefully
Install nest boxes for the local wildlife
Install a rainwater tank and have the water plumbed into the house or for irrigating the garden
Install a permeable driveway to allow water to seep away instead of flowing to the road

You can do so much for your community