The Living Water Smart program now has available a collection of weather stations for Darwin and Katherine, displaying up to date weather data suitable for adjusting the irrigation controller on your premises to minimise water use for irrigation of gardens.
Go to the www.livingwatersmart.com.au web site and search for the Darwin weather web. A bit convoluted to find, but if in Darwin your suburb will be covered by the system, if not now, coming very soon. Some areas may offer a choice of a site nearer than your suburb name, as the system is based on school locations.
They recommend 30mm of rain or irrigation per week as adequate. Others might suggest more or less, but a definite improvement over the often stupid option of letting the system run as it wants.
Save water, save money and improve your garden by using a suitable amount of water - often by adding no irrigation for the wet season period of November to April, but caution that for 2019/20 with a late wet season likely, you might need to keep up irrigation for a while longer, except for periods after storms.
Find the site and use it........save water and $$!
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