HEADLINE TO BE PLACED IN THIS SPACE Water for a Healthy Country … partnerships delivering water management solutions to Australia Discussions with Monash.

HEADLINE TO BE PLACED IN THIS SPACE

Water for a Healthy Country…partnerships delivering water management solutions to Australia

Discussions with Monash University12 December 2006

Australia is Warming

Karoly & Braganza (2004)

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(oC

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+0.8

+0.6

+0.4

+0.2

-0.2

-0.4

0.0

1920 1940 1960 1980 2000Australia’s mean temperature since 1910

Eight climate models with additional GHGs in the atmosphere

Climate models without additional GHGs in the atmosphere

Rainfall trend over Australia1952-2002 (mm/decade)

Australia is drying

Rainfall and Streamflow reductions (Water Corp.)

Demand is growing

•Sydney

•Perth

•Lower Hunter

•Melbourne

•Gold Coast

•Canberra

•Brisbane

•Adelaide

•City

• 174

• 171

• 181

• 159

• 147

• 187

• 210

• 190

•Current Per Capita

Consumption* (Unrestricted

Usage) (KL/Y)

• 54%• 80• 884,236

• 41%• 102• 312,966

• 44%• 101• 98,682

• 41%• 93• 658,567

• 47%• 78• 99,112

• 22%• 146• 74,704

• 51%• 103• 249,725

• 24%• 144• 205,731

•Reduction %

•Per Capita Consumption

required in 2030 to stay within reduced Sustainable Yield

(Unrestricted Usage) (KL/Y)

•Consumption 2030 (ML/Y)

Most cities must find equivalent of 40% reduction per capita consumption in next 25

years

We have no option but to pursue alternative strategies

And communities are seeking improved

environmental outcomes from water

Living MurrayIcon Sites

The water scarcity challenge

Ensuring the integrity of our environmental assets(aquifers, rivers, floodplains, wetlands, estuaries)

Ensuring security of supply to water users(urban and rural)

Demandincreasing

Supplydecreasing

Goal

To achieve a ten fold increase in the social, economic and environmental benefits from

water by 2025

The research challenges are

different

• Australia’s water challenges are complex, and require a multidisciplinary, systems approach for resolution:

• The wider implications of climate change

• Identifying the best mix of options to meet water demand or environmental objectives

• Alternative market or institutional instruments

• Advancing water technologies to make the greatest difference

• Public acceptance of new water strategies

Alignment with Water Policy

The Flagship is explicitly aligned with the objectives and intent of the a set of water policies:

Living Murray Initiative

Western Australia State Water Strategy

Great Barrier Reef Water Quality and Protection Plan

National Water Initiative

Who does water research?

CSIROBRSANSTOGeosciences AustraliaBoM

Universities include:• UWA – Environmental

Systems Engineering• UMelb - Water Research

Centre• U of Newcastle• Monash U – Institute for

Sustainable Water Resources

Significant water-research partnerships:

• Water for a Healthy Country• eWater CRC• CRC Irrigation Futures• CRC for Water Quality &

Treatment

Water R&D differentiation

System complexity

Devices System components Whole systemperformance

Development & commercialisation

Frontierscience

Strategicscience

Incrementalscience

Water for a Healthy Country

Universities

CSIRODivisions

Application& adoption

Ho

rizo

n

Govt Departments

Water R&D differentiation

System complexity

Devices System components Whole systemperformance

Development & commercialisation

Frontierscience

Strategicscience

Incrementalscience

eWater CRC

Water for a Healthy Country

Universities

CSIRODivisions

Application& adoption

Ho

rizo

n

CRCWater Quality

&Treatment

CRC Irrigation Futures

Govt Departments

MDFRC

MDRFC = Murray Darling Freshwater Research Centre

System interactions & benefits

How do we know if we are having

an impact?

Research Quality Framework

Imp

act

on

Pee

rs

Imp

act

on

Go

al

• Reduce cost of current products

• Improve efficiency of use

• Transform product to new use

Project 1

Project 2

Project 3

Project 4

Project 5

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