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CATCHMENT DETOX
YOUR LAND … YOUR WATER … YOUR CHOICE
Visit catchmentdetox.net.au to play this amazing virtual reality catchment management simulator.
Catchment Detox is the 2008 Science Week National Project. It's an amazing online game where you manage a virtual catchment and try balancing three basic factors: the health of the environment, the economy and population growth.
But Catchment Detox is more than just a game - it is a mammoth and exciting project led by the ABC, along with partners CSIRO, eWater and National Science Week.
- The Catchment Detox project features:
- the online game where you manage your own virtual river catchment
- a series of radio pieces loaded with relevant information and ideas to help you make the best decisions in the game
- a resource website full of background information, podcasts, facts and figures
The game begins with a catchment in a critical condition and through virtual years ('turns'), you make decisions to restore and develop it. It's up to you what activities you undertake - maybe you plant olives or grapes, run cattle or sheep, or plant forests and log them. Perhaps tourism is your thing. Whatever you choose, the landscape constantly evolves responding to your decisions.
Sounds daunting? Help is at hand. To pick up informed comments and subtle hints to help score well, ABC Local Radio will broadcast a Catchment Detox series across Australia over a two week period. Listen in as broadcaster Michael Mackenzie looks at five key elements of natural resource management: surface water, ground water, biodiversity, soil health and community sustainability. The radio series will also be available as podcasts following broadcast .
At the completion of a game, you can register your results to be in the competition for a trip for 2 to one of Australia’s most amazing freshwater lakes – Lake Argyle in the Kimberley region of Western Australia or to Mildura on the Murray. The school team prize is a huge box of ABC Shop DVDs and books. All competition entries must be received by September 5.
The Catchment Detox game and website is launched at the beginning of Science Week on August 16. Hear information and commentary on ABC Local Radio between August 25 and September 5.
Catchment Detox is an initiative of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, in partnership with eWater, the CSIRO, the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research (DIISR) and National Science Week. It is based on an original idea by Natural Resource Management advisor Tim Stubbs and consultant Lucy Broad.
The game starts on August 16, 2008 at catchmentdetox.net.au
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