The Bushmans Blog

To give back to the community and help Australia build a sustainable future we partnered with the Junior Landcare grants to create the Bushman’s Junior Landcare grants. The idea is to give back and help achieve our mission of Saving […]

In August 2021, the NSW Government released its first long-term strategy which will set the direction and inform planning and infrastructure investment in water-related policy for the next 20 to 40 years. The NSW Water Strategy details 40 actions across […]

At Bushmans we are dedicated to building a sustainable future and giving back to the community. We asked ourselves what we could do to raise awareness of the importance of water conservation, rainwater harvesting and biodiversity. We contacted Landcare and […]

We all saw the horrendous scenes of plagues of mice coming out of Eastern Australia in the past few months. Some of the horror stories included people coming home to mice-infested houses, people being bit in hospital beds, power going […]

We often associate a decrease in or lack of rain to be the sole factor for droughts to develop. But there is another type of drought that can now be added to the drought typology – flash drought. As has […]

In the land of extreme weather, Aussies are used to the driest of dry and the wettest of wet, particularly in recent years where we have seen a series of extreme weather events in succession. It is safe to say […]

“Circle of Life” – that wonderful opening song from Disney’s Lion King should perhaps be played loudly around factories making polyethylene water tanks. In the same way that capturing and storing rainwater is based on the water cycle in Australia […]

Australia and its climate are defined by extremes and the last couple of decades, and indeed recent years, have seen some extraordinary climate events, with the most recent summer being unusually wet and cool. This is in stark contrast to […]

We all know the value of rainwater and the golden practice of catching the raindrops when they fall. Rain harvesting is a practice that is invaluable in Australia, one of the driest continents on earth. A water tank is an […]