Asset management for distributed water and wastewater systems
This project will address asset management for distributed water and wastewater infrastructures. These systems include rain-tanks and on-site wastewater treatment at the household level as well as the community scale total water cycle schemes providing integrated management of stormwater, wastewater and water supply. The work will involve developing appropriate principles, strategies and methods for the asset management of these localised and small-scale infrastructures drawing on current practice in centralised urban water systems. The research will investigate ways to meaningfully integrate risk management and asset management frameworks. Risk management would include public health, ecological/environmental, engineering and socio-economic risks. Asset management would be set in the context of whole of life cycle costing and cost effectiveness analysis between different options.
For further information about this topic contact Professor Cynthia Mitchell
