A tree in Moonee Valley at night. Photo by woowoowoo & used under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 license.

Moonee Valley City Council adopt a tree project

Water Campaign^™ participant, Moonee Valley City Council, is asking residents to adopt a tree in their street to help save water.

As part of this project Council is urging residents to capture grey-water and use it to water a tree in their local area. Moonee Valley City Council is striving to reduce its water consumption by at least 25% and this is one way the local community can become involved.

Additionally, as part of Moonee Valley City Council’s response to Stage 3 Water Restrictions, Council is implementing the following water saving measures:

• Purchasing recycled water from Western Water for use on street trees and plants;
• Installing two 22,500-litre water storage tanks at the council depot to be used for water harvesting and storing recycled water;
• Ceasing all new garden bed and annual plantings;
• Converting Queens Park bed spray irrigation to a drip system;
• Ceasing irrigation of all open space areas;
• Using mulch at numerous sites and providing free mulch to the community when available; and
• Planting drought tolerant species.

ICLEI’s Water Campaign^™ is an international freshwater management program, which aims to build the capacity of local government to reduce water consumption and improve local water quality. The Water Campaign™ is an ICLEI-A/NZ program delivered in collaboration with several partners. For more information on the Campaign, please visit www.iclei.org/oceania/water.

Moonee Valley is one of 95 local governments in Australia that are currently Members of ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability. For more information on ICLEI and its activities in the Oceania Region, please visit www.iclei.org/oceania.

Source: ICLEI ANZ News. January 2007.

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