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Catchment Detox
Your land... Your Water... Your Choice. Catchment Detox, this year’s national project for the 2008 National Science Week, is designed to help Australians better understand and manage the environment we live in.
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.
Play Catchment Detox and you could win a trip to the Kimberleys. If you play as a school team you could win $1000 of ABC Shop books and DVDs for your school.
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.
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 were launched at the beginning of Science Week on August 16. The website is full of information, photos, podcasts and links that will help you understand catchment management issues that affect our water, our food, our economy and our environment.
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.
