Permanent Water Conservation Measures

During spring, summer and autumn:

You can use sprinklers and other irrigation systems, including drip irrigation to water lawns and plants after 6pm and before 9am on any da

• True

• False

You can’t water lawns and plants so heavily that it causes pooling or runoff

• In summer

• In autumn

• In winter

• in spring

You can use a hand-held hose fitted with a trigger nozzle, a bucket or a watering can to water lawns and plants at any time in summer autumn and spring

• True

• False

When can you use a sprinkler to water your lawn?

Washing your car - what can you use?

- where can you wash it?

• a bucket or watering can

• a high-pressure low-volume cleaner

• a hand-held hose fitted with a trigger nozzle

• on driveways, concrete, roads or hard surfaces

• on a lawn or other soft surface

Select the correct answers:

Windows, buildings and building gutters 

• You can clean building gutters at any time by any means.

• You can wash windows and other external parts of buildings at any time using a bucket and mop or brush, squeegee or a high-pressure low-volume cleaner. 

• You can wash windows using a standard garden hose, if it has a trigger nozzle

• You can use water to wash building exteriors if cleaning is necessary as a result of accident, fire, health hazard or other emergency. In these circumstances the most water-efficient method of cleaning reasonably available should be adopted

If you have a pond with a fountain, it needs to be a recirculating fountain.

What do you think this means?

You can only top up your pool and spa (less than 3,000 litres) using a hand-held hose fitted with a trigger nozzle, a bucket or watering can. 

• If you have an exemption

• At anytime

• Between 9pm and 6am

• If it is new