Episode: One
Date: 18th April (19th in WA)
Story: Saving Water
Presenter: Neville Passmore

Neville takes a look at Mansfield?s Propagation Nursery, a past winner in the savewater! Awards?, to find out how to save water and how to enter this year?s awards.

Entries are now open!

Featured Sponsor: savewater!? Alliance

savewater! awards?

• Entries are now open, and close Monday 1st June 2009
• Enter at www.savewater.com.au
• There are nine award categories you can enter into:
  • Business Award
  • Regional and Rural
  • Government Award
  • Education Institutions
  • Built Environment and Gardens
  • International Product Innovations Award
  • Community Action
  • Young Achiever
  • Photographic Awards (3 sub-categories; primary school students, secondary school students and the general public)
    
  
  
• The savewater! awards? is in its seventh year, and it?s a way in which water saving stars from all around Australia can be recognized and rewarded for their outstanding efforts.
• The awards showcase innovation in water conservation.
• Winning at the savewater! awards? has helped many companies and individuals spread the water conservation message and assist others in the community
• The awards recognize businesses such as Mansfield?s Propagation Nursery

Featured Place: Mansfield?s Propagation Nursery

• Is one of Australia?s leading propagators. They grow and supply over three million native and exotic plants to the landscape and garden industries annually.
• In 2008, the nursery was recognized for its outstanding water savings achieved in business for their state-of-the-art purpose-built propagation facility.
• This facility allows the nursery to use treated water for almost 80% of their water requirements, which has heavily reduced their reliance on mains potable water.
• This has seen the installation of thousands of drains beneath the growing area, allowing for water to be captured and piped to on-site wetlands where it is treated and stored ready for use around the nursery.
• Mansfield?s Propagation Nursery has also implemented several other water saving measures.
• The entire nursery has been fitted with low-volume sprinkler heads to minimize irrigation water usage.
• The Nursery is recognized as leaders in innovation in the water industry.

Mansfield?s Propagation Nursery
150 Taylors Rd in Skye 3977 in Victoria
Phone: 97822404
Fax: 97822438
Email: Orders@mansfields.net.au
Website: www.mansfields.net.au

Contact
savewater!? Alliance
Phone: (03) 8508 6888
Fax: (03) 8508 6899
Address: Suite 2, Ground floor, 615 Dandenong Rd, Armadale, VIC Australia, 3143
Website: www.savewater.com.au