Sustainable water futures
The Institute is known nationally and internationally for its research that supports cost-effective, sustainable and adaptive water cycle management solutions to the challenges presented by drought, rising urban populations, and environmental flow demands. Our highly skilled team has worked on innovative projects in most Australian states and internationally. Our total water cycle management approach considers water supply, sanitation and stormwater systems as a holistic system.
We have expertise in the following aspects of water cycle management:
Integrated Resource Planning
We develop and review water resource policy that integrates demand and supply side options to deliver improved reliability, efficiency and cost-effectiveness. We scope, design, implement and review demand management programs that ensure water supply for the community whilst reducing asset outlays, saving money and reducing our impact upon the environment. We undertake integrated resource planning based on detailed demand forecasting using end-use modeling and a holistic and balanced assessment of both demand and supply options.
Sanitation Futures
Our research support a sanitation future in which the health of urban populations and the resources upon which they depend are maintained and valued. We have expertise in examining the environmental, social and economic costs and benefits of distributed sanitation asset models at the onsite, cluster and development scale. We have also been involved in risk and asset management planning to ensure engineering, human health and ecological risks are managed effectively.
International Water
The adaptability of our water cycle management expertise has seen our models applied successfully in a number of developed and developing countries with vastly different needs and resources.
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