The Australian water industry control and maintains over $160 billion of built assets and also relies on significant natural assets such as surface and groundwater catchments. The preparedness of our utilities and communities in the face of disruptive and extreme events is requiring us to address these challenges proactively. 

Bring your strategic and technical experts along to this online workshop to drive the research agenda and prioritise WaterRA’s research activities on the following topics:

1. How to work towards climate resilience in our raw water sources 

• Systems thinking: What are the current gaps in our approaches to create resilience throughout the water cycle (catchment to tap to wastewater (resource) recovery)?
• How can we proactively manage surface water catchments and storages in the face of climate change?
• What are the key knowledge and management challenges in how we manage our groundwater resources?

2. How to make our built and natural water treatment assets become more resilient against floods, fires, sea-level rise

See the other workshops you can attend as part of the Workshop series:

1. Supply Optimisation – Workshop 1: Alternative Water Sources
2. Supply Optimisation – Workshop 2: Networks and Treatment 
3. Service Delivery – Workshop 1: Data Smart Technologies and IoT
4. Circular Economy
5. Liveability
6. Service Delivery - Workshop 2: Community and sector resilience in the face of disruptive and extreme events
   

The Roadmaps to Research workshop series is for WaterRA utility, council, health department and regulator members only. Not sure if your organisation is a member? Check our member listing here.

Please note: registrations will not be accepted on the day of the workshop.