Today is World Water Day. Water was the number one concern for Cranbrook's Integrated Sustainability Team - Cranbrook Connected. At Monday's Council meeting we heard from Streamkeepers about how the quality of Joseph Creek is impaired after flowing through Cranbrook. The city has put millions into cleaning up our waste water. Now, cleaning up Joseph Creek and returning it to a healthy fish bearing stream is possible with our care, allowing the banks to be shaded with natural vegetation, preventing it from being the dumping ground for polluted run-off and a depository for garbage.
| There are 7 billion people to feed on the planet today and another 2 billion are expected to join by 2050. Statistics say that each of us drinks from 2 to 4 litres of water every day, however most of the water we ‘drink’ is embedded in the food we eat: producing 1 kilo of beef for example consumes 15,000 litres of water while 1 kilo of wheat ’drinks up’ 1,500 litres. |
Always caring about our waterways, Stewart Wilson took a walk up St Mary's River bed a few days ago.
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