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The Victorian Government is hoping almost 7 million litres of recycled water will help Melbourne's parched botanic gardens and elm trees.
Most of the water from two temporary pools at Rod Laver Arena will be used to top up the lake inside the Royal Botanic Gardens and about 500,000 litres will be used on the city's water-stressed elm trees.
The water will come from the pools used at the World Swimming Championships.
Water Minister John Thwaites says it will cost about $100,000.
"We know how important these trees are but we know that a number of them are stressed," he said.
"Of course we can't guarantee that these trees will survive."
Environment Victoria spokeswoman has welcomed the plan but says it does not go far enough.
"What we'd actually like to see the Minister do is take similar steps to protect our natural heritage, the thousands of red gums dying all along the Murray River in northern Victoria," she said.
The championshiops are held in March.
AstralPool build a temporary swimming pool that will be used for the 12th FINA World Championships in Melbourne from 17 March to 1 April 2007? Why not look at how they built the temporary 25-metre pool that was used at the 8th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in April this year.
AstralPool used the same technology it employed in the highly successful Barcelona pool at the 10th FINA World Championships as it did for the recent FINA World Swimming Championships (25m).
The system is called “Skypool”, and uses free standing panels of hot galvanized steel. This certified technology, developed entirely by the Spanish company, enables the pool to sit on the stadium’s floor without having to construct anything or “hammer a single nail”.
The competition pool used in Shanghai measured 25X25X2 metres and held up to 1,250 m3 of water. It took AstralPool technicians approximately three weeks to build and one hundred steel panels were used in the pool’s assembly.
The pool that AstralPool installed in Shanghai was one of the most advanced of its kind. It was been specially designed to help swimmers by introducing innovations that favored their wellbeing and performance. specially designed for competition pools.
The starting blocks were identical to those used with great success in Barcelona 2003. In addition, a series of breakthroughs were applied. These made the swimming pool one of the most perfect swimming environments, and include:
- Adaptable tensioners to adjust the pool measurements to the millimetre
- Disinfection with bromine
- Overflow channel on all four sides to obtain a perfect water surface.