Water
Designing homes to use water efficiently, reduce costs and cope with more frequent droughts or storms.
Water: Introduction
Water and wastewater infrastructure is expensive, and the costs are borne by home occupiers through rates and water supply and disposal charges.
By designing, building and renovating homes that use water efficiently, you can help keep these costs down, provide your clients with ongoing economic benefits and make the home better equipped to cope with prolonged droughts or short intense storms. Reducing water use also benefits the environment by, for example, reducing the need to draw more water from rivers and waterways, and reducing the need to build new infrastructure for supply and disposal.