This Is Water Wise
Conserving Water, Conserving the Environment
Store
Our store offers a range of FREE Water Wise education resources and materials that can be ordered by downloading our Order Form.
We will be moving towards an fully online store in the near future.
Note that a A MAXIMUM of 5 items per person may be ordered at one time depending on availability. Please complete the Order Form and ensure you provide a valid PHYSICAL ADDRESS to where this order can be couriered too. This address must have someone present to receive and sign for your order. Below is a brief description of the resources and materials that can be ordered.
Brochures
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Water Wise Education Team Brochure
- An overview of the school education services offered by Rand Water’s Water Wise Education Team
How is Tap Water Cleaned? Flyer
- An overview of Rand Water’s purification process for learners.
“How is Tap Water Cleaned?”
- Leaflets A set of 9 A4 leaflets that explain Rand Water’s purification process for learners.
Our Water Our Future
- An overview of the water situation in South Africa.
Meaning of being Water Wise
- An explanation of the 6 meanings of being Water Wise. This includes a self evaluation.
Wastewater Dial
- A DIY dial that explains how waste should be treated.
Wise up on Wetlands
- A water droplet’s journey through a wetland with information on how wetlands function.
Open the Door to a Water Wise House
- Handy tips to make your house Water Wise.
The Story of Tap Water
- An overview of Rand Water’s purification process for adults.
Create Shaded Garden Areas
- Learn how a shady woodland garden conserves water.
Water Wise Plant Characteristics
- Learn how to identify plants that have adapted to the various climates and microclimates to use water wisely.
Capture the Rain
- The benefits of using rainwater include a saving on your water bill and ensures that your plants don’t suffer during dry spells.
Climate Change
- The changes in temperature causes climate changes to occur, which in turn affects weather events such as rainfall. Learn how to survive in the new climatic conditions.
Mulch
- Mulch is one of the quickest, easiest and most cost effective ways to use water wisely in your garden. Learn what mulch is and the different types.
Water Wise Irrigation
- An explanation of various irrigation methods and how an irrigation system can help gardeners keep their gardens looking good while at the same time conserving water.
Alien Invasive Plants
- Invasive alien (exotic) plants are plants brought into South Africa from other countries. Learn more about current legislation guiding the regulation of these plants and how to control them.
Hydrozone your Garden
- The main design principle of a Water Wise garden is to group plants with similar water requirements in the same beds. This approach allows any gardener to have an area for high water consumption plants but at the same time results in water savings of between 30% and 80%.
Water Wise Landscaping
- Unpacking the division of a landscape into its different zones and how these can be planted up.
Water Wise Buildings
- Tips on how to manage water consumption and leaks in buildings.
Healthy Soil
- How to identify soil types and improve soil conditions and their water holding capacity to use water wisely.
Vegetable Gardening
- How to prepare a vegetable bed, types of companion plants and water needs of vegetables.
Lawns
- Tips on how to reduce lawn areas and select lawns that help conserve water.
Posters
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What is Water?
- An A1 poster illustrating the water cycle and the amount of water on Earth.
Are you a Water Wise Gardener?
- An A1 poster illustrating how one can make your own food garden.
Can you develop a Water Wise Policy?
- An A1 poster that provides visual questions to assist in developing a water policy.
H20: Heights to Homes to Oceans
- From where does your tap water in Gauteng come? This full colour A1 cartoon poster illustrates the route that water takes from the mountains to the dams to our homes and back to the rivers.
H20: Heights to Homes to Oceans #2
- An A1 poster that is a companion to H2O No. 1 and illustrates the same area in a 3 dimensional format.
A Look at your Water Wise World
- Are you always looking for photos of water for your school projects, then this poster will assist you? 32 photos have been designed into one full colour A2 poster that can be cut up. Photos include: Planet Earth from space, the water cycle, wetlands, dams, drought, floods, pollution, taps, etc.
Let’s be Water Wise
- To be “Water Wise” means you: Respect Water, Respect Life; Don’t Waste Water; Don’t Pollute Water; Pay for Water Services; Take Environmental Action; and Conserve Water, Conserve the Environment. This A1 full colour poster illustrates the 6 meanings of being “Water Wise”.
Manzi’s Water Wise Mission poster
- This A2 poster is a poem that explains the 6 meanings of being Water Wise.
Not All Rain Should Go Down the Drain
- Should all rain go down the drain? How is the stormwater managed in schools and homes? This A1 full colour poster illustrates 2 scenarios: how stormwater is badly managed and how it should be properly managed. This poster was produced in partnership with the Wildlife & Environment Society of Southern Africa.
Life in a Water Wise Wetland
- An A2 poster that illustrates the variety of life in a wetland.
Life in a Water Wise River
- An A2 poster that illustrates the variety of life in a river.
Join Manzi on the Water Wise Expedition
- An A1 cartoon expedition of Manzi travelling through the Vaal Dam catchment and investigating the different meanings of being Water Wise.
Wetland’s are Nature’s Way of Providing Water
- An A1 poster that illustrates the importance of wetlands and how they are destroyed by human activities.
A Water Wise Alphabet in English
- An A1 poster illustrating the letters of the alphabet that are linked to English water words.
A Water Wise Alphabet in Afrikaans
- An A1 poster illustrating the letters of the alphabet that are linked to Afrikaans water words.
What Happens Above, Has Impacts Below
- A poster that illustrates a river flowing from catchment to coast, both above the water and below the water.
Open the Door to Manzi’s Water Wise House
- A poster illustrating Manzi’s Water Wise tips for both indoor and outdoor water usage.
Are you a Water Wise Family?
- An A2 poster illustrating 2 different houses: The MacDrip Family, that wastes a lot of water, and the VanPlug Family, that uses water wisely.
Terrific Tap Water
- An A1 cartoon poster that illustrates the water purification process, aimed at primary school learners.
Wanted: Clean Tap Water
- An A1 poster that illustrates the water purification process, aimed at high school learners.
The Earth Recycles your Water
- An A1 poster illustrating the water cycle, aimed at primary school learners.
The Water Cycle
- An A1 poster illustrating the water cycle, aimed at primary and high school learners.
Pipes and Puddles Board Game
- An A2 board game, based on a snakes and ladders game, which teaches children to be Water Wise.
Catching Water: The Essence of Life
- An A1 poster illustrating the route that water takes through the catchment to get to the Vaal Dam.
Booklets
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How to be a Water Wise Warrior
- Manzi is on a mission to teach all his friends how to be Water Wise through a reading and colour in book for young learners.
“Going with the Flow”
- A Handbook for Water Wise Stormwater Management What happens to the rain that falls on the Earth’s surface? Does it all land up in our rivers, and if so how does it get there? What is stormwater and how is it managed in schools and homes? This A4 handbook answers all these questions and assists you to take practical action in managing your stormwater. This handbook was produced in partnership with the Wildlife & Environment Society of Southern Africa.
“Daddy Cool and the Rainbird”
- Grade 3 Reader Teaching our children/learners about how vital water is for their bodies and the environment will help them to value, respect and use water wisely. Water Wise has created a Grade 3 reader and activity book where learners meet Daddy Cool, the leopard, and his friends, Rainbird and Huberta, the Hippo, as they learn about the importance of water in the African bush.
“A Bucket! Your must be Joking!”
- Grade 3 Reader Reading helps learners expand their vocabulary, and improve their memory, focus and communication skills. Water Wise has created a Grade 3 reader and activity book. Carol the crow lives in the city and decides to visit her
cousin, Ntsiki the meerkat, on the farm. Carol soon realises that she needs to start appreciating and respecting water, and learns how to be Water Wise in a dry country like South Africa.
CD’s
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The Love & Respect Show CD
- “Hello! Sanbonani! Dumelang! I’m Water Wise Radio’s favourite DJ, Lady Blue, coming to you over the airwaves with my message of Love and Respect for our life giving resource, water. On today’s show we’ll be learning more about this life giving substance, interviewing special guests, listening to your questions, hearing a Water Wise story and, of course, laying down some brand new and beautiful Water Wise beats.” This CD is a radio show, with songs, that will inspire you to become Water Wise.