House Water Expert is an interactive software package that enables householders to accurately record their water use and helps them assess ways to reduce water wastage.
This is a tool to help urban householders be more water efficient.
House Water Expert, software developed by the Water for a Healthy Country Flagship, gives consumers an accurate way to understand their water use and helps them to assess ways to cut waste.
House Water Expert enables a user to enter data about their home consumption. For example, do they have a pool? A garden? If so, how big and how often does it need to be watered? Do they wash their car or cars? Do they have their own water tank?
Australian householders now have a tool to help them be more water efficient, saving money and helping the environment.
What it does
The software brings all of the data together, right down to the water-efficiency ratings of household appliances, to generate estimates of usage and evaluate the water savings of each technique or device in their home.
Householders can then decide if a more water-efficient washing machine, a rain tank or other device will help them to reduce their water usage.
House Water Expert has also been distributed to water utilities and other organisations for customising to local conditions.
House Water Expert was produced by the Urban Waterscapes research program of the Water for a Healthy Country Flagship.
Microsoft.Net.Framework 1.1 is required to run the software.
Future developments
Scientists are now working with the urban planners and developers to create tools that will assist in the design and implementation of water sustainable developments, allowing urban planners to better design for lower water use by incorporating water efficiency, usage and smart treatment technologies into the design of suburbs.
Another product, ‘HydroPlanner’ will be developed to help us understand water availability and use throughout regions and how the options chosen affect the supply and demand balance.
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