Contents: Introduction -- What is a sustainable house? -- How we achieved our sustainable house -- The kitchen -- The bathroom --The floors --Drinking-water quality --Making our own drinking water --Using the rainwater tank system --Making our own energy --The refrigerator --Turning our waste into a resource --Quality control for the waste-water system --The garden --Materials --Working with council and government agencies --Working with architects, builders, plumbers and engineers --Costs and benefits --Ot
Summary
Information to allow non-experts to achieve their own sustainable house, a house that generates its own electricity via solar panels on the roof., and which captures rainwater for drinking and bathing and recycles wastewater for clothes washing, toilet flushing and for gardening. By a family that had no problem during the recent Sydney water crisis
Notes
Published with assistance from Environment Australia