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From: Sergey Golovin
This beautiful graphic here shows you nioaka grass, which is an Australian grass bred specifically for Australian conditions. It uses only half the water that you normally need on a lawn, and it only has to be mown four times a year, bonus, big bonus.
Pauline Newman: And we’ve got a water collecting system here?
Sandra McEwen: Yes, we have. Water is going to become a lot more valuable as it becomes scarcer, and this system here is a rainwater tank designed for an urban system. There’s an overflow mechanism there which allows the first flush of rain to wash your roof and then be diverted onto your garden, then the rest of the rain actually gets diverted down into the water tank. There are filters in there that make sure that the water is as clean, if not cleaner, than Sydney water.
Pauline Newman: Has that actually been tried?
Sandra McEwen: It has. Michael Mobbs and his family live in Chippendale in the middle of Sydney. They use this sort of system and they have their water tested all the time, and routinely the tests come back as clean or cleaner than Sydney water.
Serge.
This beautiful graphic here shows you nioaka grass, which is an Australian grass bred specifically for Australian conditions. It uses only half the water that you normally need on a lawn, and it only has to be mown four times a year, bonus, big bonus.
Pauline Newman: And we’ve got a water collecting system here?
Sandra McEwen: Yes, we have. Water is going to become a lot more valuable as it becomes scarcer, and this system here is a rainwater tank designed for an urban system. There’s an overflow mechanism there which allows the first flush of rain to wash your roof and then be diverted onto your garden, then the rest of the rain actually gets diverted down into the water tank. There are filters in there that make sure that the water is as clean, if not cleaner, than Sydney water.
Pauline Newman: Has that actually been tried?
Sandra McEwen: It has. Michael Mobbs and his family live in Chippendale in the middle of Sydney. They use this sort of system and they have their water tested all the time, and routinely the tests come back as clean or cleaner than Sydney water.
Serge.
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