Water+Facts



Facts

Click on this link to see the the water catchment areas of NSW(Lochie.sutherland) "building a water cathment floods most of the surrounding area" L.D Although we don’t often think about it, cities are catchments for rivers as well. (G,R) no matter where you are there is water under the ground maybe in a pipe or just in the soil (AM**,**MB) everyone lives in a catchment (am/mb) The concept of a catchment is useful, because it is the scale on which many parts of the landscape work.(OM,EW)

A pineapple is 80% water, compared to 95% for a tomato and ·A chicken is made up of about 75%(jack.gartsky)

The total amount of water on Earth has remained constant for thousands of years, this means that the only water we will ever have we have right now (jack.gartsky)

Water makes up two-thirds of our body and we use it in so many ways: for drinking, watering, gardening, washing, for removing our wastes and for recreational activities. (Will Maloney)

Catchments range greatly in size and use such as the small urban catchments to the large catchments spanning three states.(JS, JC) A typical family uses 70,000 litres year on toilet flushing, clothes washing, and outside use. Even a regulated flush uses 5 litres of water, its easy to multiply that by the numbers in an office and average use.(J.O)

Competition for water in many catchments is becoming a major issue raised by the traditional agricultural sector and rural communities.(J.O) Every time we interact with the environment - clearing land for housing, growing food and fibre, disposing of our waste, watering the garden, walking in a natural environment, fishing and camping, we impact directly or indirectly on our catchment.(RA,NG)

"Everyone of us lives in a catchment" (P.S, T.B) 'The soil, plants, animals and water all function together in a catchment-anything that affects one of these will also have an impact on the others'(P.S, T.B)

The concept of a catchment is useful, because it is the scale on which many parts of the landscape work, the soil, plants, animals and water all function together in a catchment (NC,SM)

Chemicals in the air turns rain into toxic acid which will infect the rest of the catchment.(LC & GD)

We all live in a catchment. A catchment is the area of land that is drained by a particular river system. Catchments vary in size, larger ones are made up of many smaller catchments.(T.S K.N) Goulburn Broken Catchment: (T.S K.N)
 * **»** || has a population of approximately 200,000 people; ||
 * **»** || covers a region of 24,300 square kilometres, representing about 10.5% of Victoria's total area; ||

Land Use
 * Area = 110 km2
 * 80,000 properties
 * 72% residential (houses)
 * 10% commercial (industrial, shopping)
 * 12% infrastructure (roads, rail)
 * 5% open space and bushland
 * 1% zoned rural
 * (T.S K.N)[[image:huntermap.gif width="399" height="373" caption="hunter catchment Luke & Josh"]]