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City joins Global Water Conservation Campaign

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Monday, March 9, 2009

City joins global water

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City of Fremantle has water conservation firmly in its sights after joining an international water management program to help reduce water consumption.

The City’s landscape architect Giles Pickard is heading up Fremantle’s involvement in the five-phase Local Governments for Sustainability Water Campaign, a project which aims to significantly reduce the council’s water consumption through a range of initiatives.

The first is to take an inventory of consumption and water quality which is well under way.  

Giles says the City’s Water Conservation Plan, prepared for the Department of Water provides much of the information needed for that inventory and he expects the City to reach the first milestone of the program soon.   

The following stages include establishing water reduction goals, a local action plan, water conservation policy and monitoring procedures.   

Mayor Peter Tagliaferri says Fremantle is a signatory to the Cities for Climate Protection and part of that group’s ethos is to conserve natural resources.  

“We are very lucky here in Fremantle to have never been subject to some of the really harsh water restriction that other parts of Australia have had to endure,’ he said.

“But that doesn’t mean that will always be the case as the effects of global warming intensify.   

 "People will see some changes to the City as a result of our involvement with this new water conservation initiative which may include the browning of some passive recreation areas.

 “We assure people that the short term loss of amenity is more than compensated for by the amount of water we will be saving.”

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