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For the second year running, Living Water Smart is running a program in schools designed to create generational change and broad community awareness around the issue of water consumption in the Darwin region, called The Darwin Water Challenge.

At the moment Darwin River Dam is at 74% full and falling at almost 8 mm a day, which is normally where the Dam level is at around November after a full dry season of water use. What does this mean for our water supply?

21 June 2018 Year 7 students have presented their creative solutions to help influence and improve community water consumption in the Darwin region at the Darwin Water Expo at MacKillop Catholic [...]

Here at Living Water Smart we were thrilled to see some familiar faces from Anula Primary School in this story by Gardening Australia. Hosts, Costa Georgiadis and Sophie Thomson paid the school a [...]

1 May 2018 What do 2018's Cyclone Marcus and 2011’s Cyclone Carlos have in common? Practically nothing, if you are measuring the amount of rain that fell in the Darwin River Dam catchment area. With [...]

In 2016, Jingili Primary School took part in That’s My Water! - a unit of work mapped to the Australian Curriculum and developed in consultation with principals and teachers that empowers kids to [...]

Early in 2017 Living Water Smart and City of Darwin embarked on a joint green space assessment program. The aim was to assess and identify opportunities for water efficiency at Darwin’s popular parks [...]

Over 200 Darwin students from three local Darwin primary schools learnt innovative ways to conserve water and improve water efficiency in a program from the Power and Water, Living Water Smart team [...]

April 2018 In 2017 Living Water Smart introduced an innovative and successful Community Leak Program in partnership with local stakeholders to provide community wide leak checking, leak awareness [...]