Water for wellbeing in urban centres
Water is critical for keeping our urban centres healthy so Boorloo (Perth) is a great place to live. Water helps keep these areas attractive and relaxing. It helps maintain the trees and plants that cool these areas during hot summers.
Water for wellbeing in our urban centres:
- Water sustains gardens, trees and other plants that make the city more attractive and relaxing and provide connections between people and nature.
- This greenery makes the city cooler through shading, through the plants’ release of water through their leaves, and by evaporation of any rainfall that collects on the leaves and soil.
- Without trees and other vegetation, the day’s heat stored in the concrete and roads makes urban centres much hotter, both during the day and at night.
- Rain that falls on buildings, concrete and roads can't soak into the ground. This storm water can be redirected to water trees and plants.
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There are many ways you can help protect our valuable water by being waterwise.
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