Water Savers

As many of you may already know, Australia and Melbourne in particular is suffering from a long dry spell of the drought. Rain has been scarce and water level in the dams are in their all time low. With no rain over the long hot summer many trees in Melbourne are suffering and dying.

The council has decided to save these hundred year old trees by watering them with a simple but effective way using road barriers that are supposedly for road blocks.

The road blocks are made of plastic so are light to move around but filled with water to make heavy thus stable where they stand. One road barrier is placed on each tree and setup to feed water to it.

A rubber tubing is connected from the water discharge outlet so the water can flow out slowly at a steady rate giving the soil around the tree a good soaking .

The tube is punctured with small holes at interval lengths to leak water onto the ground and the tube is placed strategically around the tree so that the tree will have a good drink! This is a more effective way of getting water to the tree roots with minimum water wastage because we don't have much water to waste anymore.