How Is Water Used?

Find out how Australians use water every day – in homes, outdoors and in industry. Discover the ways we can use and re-use water more carefully to ensure there is enough in the future.
This important series explores the importance of water for life and living in Australia, and how we can maximise its preservation through responsibly but practical actions.

Water is Australia’s most important natural resource. Yet each year Australians use enough water to fill up Sydney Harbour nearly 50 times! Australia is the driest inhabited continent and climate change is making it even drier. Yet our need for water increases as our population grows. This informative series provides both water facts and investigates how we can act individually and together to protect our water supply for the future.

Special features:
• ‘Water fact’ – amazing water facts and figures
• ‘A closer look’ – water case studies
• Flow-chart diagrams of water-related processes
• Photographs and diagrams that explain water-related processes.

Middle primary

Other titles available in the series:
• Safe and Healthy Water
• Our Water Sources
• Getting Water to People
• Being Waterwise
• Caring for Waterways

Curriculum Links:
• SOSE: Use of resources; Resource management; Natural systems
• Science: Life and living; Earth and beyond