宜居城市

Clean waterways can make us feel better about where we live. We like the water near us to:

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• be safe
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• have no litter
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• look and smell nice
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• have plants growing nearby
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• be a home for animals
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• be inviting to swim in.
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Managing water and protecting the environment is very important to us. We play a huge role in contributing to healthy waterways.

Learn more about our role in Enhancing the liveability of our cities (3.8MB) .

生活在清洁安全的环境中

清洁的水道可以让我们对我们居住的地方感觉更好。我们喜欢身边的水:

• 是安全的
• 无垃圾
• 看起来和闻起来都很好
• 在附近种植植物
• 做动物的家
• 在里面游泳很有吸引力。

管理水资源和保护环境对我们来说非常重要。我们在促进水道健康方面发挥着巨大作用。

了解更多关于我们在提高城市的宜居性(3.8MB)．

Did you know that about 85% of Australians live within 50 kilometres of our coastline? People can feel a connection to where they live through water.

Being near water, on the water or in the water can make many people feel relaxed, calm and connected to the natural environment. How do you feel when you're near water?

In Indigenous cultures, the way the water shaped the environment and brings life is important. For thousands of years Aboriginal people have lived with respect for nature and the environment, including water, because all of nature is sacred. Read the Dreamtime story of the Illawarra and the five islands.
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水把我们连接到一个地方

你知道吗?大约85%的澳大利亚人住在离海岸线50公里以内的地方。人们可以通过水感受到与他们生活的地方的联系。

靠近水、在水上或在水里可以让许多人感到放松、平静，并与自然环境联系在一起。当你靠近水的时候你有什么感觉?

在土著文化中，水塑造环境并带来生命的方式很重要。几千年来，土著人一直在尊重自然和环境，包括水，因为所有的自然都是神圣的。阅读梦幻时光的故事伊拉瓦拉岛和五个岛屿．

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• Songkran – This festival in Thailand, originally a Hindu celebration, is an enormous water-fight party during the hottest time of the year.
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• Vardavar – Celebrated in Armenia, this water festival came from both Christian and pagan backgrounds. People go onto the streets and spray one another with water.
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• Sapporo Snow Festival – This Japanese festival is the largest snow and ice festival in the world. It features carvings made from gigantic blocks of ice.
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• Loy Krathong – People gather around lakes, rivers and canals to pay respects to the goddess of water by releasing beautiful lotus-shaped rafts decorated with candles, incense and flowers onto the water.
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• New Year's Eve – In Australia, we love to welcome in the new year by celebrating on or near our major waterways.
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水是许多文化传统的重要组成部分，例如:

• 泼水节-泰国的这个节日最初是印度的庆祝活动，是一年中最热的时候举行的大型水仗派对。
• Vardavar-在亚美尼亚庆祝，这个水节来自基督教和异教徒的背景。人们走上街头互相喷水。
• 札幌雪雪节-这个日本节日是世界上最大的冰雪节。它的特色是用巨大的冰块雕刻而成。
• 阿来Krathong-人们聚集在湖泊、河流和运河周围，将装饰着蜡烛、香和鲜花的美丽的莲花形木筏放飞到水面上，以表达对水女神的敬意。
• 除夕夜-在澳大利亚，我们喜欢在主要水道上或附近庆祝新年。

Liveable cities have access to clean, safe drinking water and the removal of wastewater (sanitation). That means our health and wellbeing are being cared for in the places we live.

Access to services and facilities like water, power, communications, transport, healthcare and education provides choices in our lives. For example:

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• how healthy you are
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• what type of recreation you can participate in
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• how far you can go in your education
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• what your employment opportunities are.
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一个地方的宜居程度可以反映那里居民的生活质量。

宜居城市可获得清洁、安全的饮用水和废水的清除(卫生设施)。这意味着我们的健康和幸福在我们居住的地方得到照顾。

获得水、电、通信、交通、保健和教育等服务和设施为我们的生活提供了选择。必威客服在线例如:

• 你有多健康
• 你可以参加什么样的娱乐活动
• 你的教育能走多远必威客服在线
• 你的就业机会是什么?

Clean water keeps us healthy and helps us manage our personal hygiene.

Using water and soap to clean your hands is essential to help stop the spread of infectious diseases. See this guide from NSW Health to see how.

Water also helps us with sanitation, such as flushing toilets. Did you know that the invention of toilets helped to save lives? See How the toilet changed history.

When you flush your toilet your used water is removed, cleaned and returned to the environment or reused safely. This is called wastewater treatment.

卫生用水

清洁的水使我们保持健康，并帮助我们保持个人卫生。

用水和肥皂洗手对阻止传染病的传播至关重要。参见以下指南新南威尔士州卫生看看怎么做。

水还可以帮助我们清洁卫生，比如冲厕所。你知道厕所的发明有助于挽救生命吗?看到厕所是如何改变历史的．

当你冲厕所时，用过的水被清除、清洁并返回到环境中或安全地重复使用。这叫做废水处理．

One of the ways we help is by sponsoring Orange Sky Australia. Orange Sky is the world's first free mobile laundry service for people without access to clean, safe washing facilities.

We've funded a shower and laundry van that provides access to basic hygiene in our local community. This will help restore dignity to those who are easily forgotten.

Try our Orange Sky Lesson Plan (177KB) in the classroom.

Investigate What is World Toilet Day?

洗澡、洗衣服和清洁用水可以改善人们的生活质量。

我们的帮助方式之一就是赞助澳大利亚橙色天空．橙色天空是世界上第一个免费的移动洗衣服务，为没有清洁、安全洗衣设施的人提供服务。

我们资助了一辆淋浴和洗衣车，为我们当地社区提供基本的卫生设施。这将有助于恢复那些容易被遗忘的人的尊严。

试试我们橙色天空课程计划(177KB)在教室里。

调查什么是世界厕所日?

It costs money to make sure there's high quality, safe water every time you turn on the tap.

There's a lot to think about when setting prices for water and there are different prices for your home and businesses. One litre of Sydney tap water costs less than one cent.

You might like to compare our prices with some other countries, like Singapore, and Thames Water in the United Kingdom. Remember to convert to Australian dollars!

Bottled water can be 1,800 times more expensive than tap water. Although it's more expensive, it's not necessarily any better for us or the environment. Tap water versus bottled water (210KB).

There's help for customers who have trouble paying their bills. Get help with your bill.

水的成本

确保你每次打开水龙头时都有高质量、安全的水是要花钱的。

制定水价的时候要考虑很多问题有很多不同价格为您的家庭和企业服务。悉尼一升自来水的价格不到一美分。

您不妨把我们的价格和其他国家的比较一下，比如新加坡，而且泰晤士水务公司在英国。记得兑换成澳元!

瓶装水比自来水贵1800倍。虽然它更贵，但它不一定对我们或环境更好。自来水与瓶装水的比较(210KB)．

有帮助那些支付账单有困难的顾客。得到必威登录 ．