Reid Butler  

Reid is the Manager of the BMT WBM Water and Environment Office in Sydney and has over fifteen years experience in sustainable water management. His key skills range from stormwater and catchment management planning, water sensitive urban design, water flow monitoring and water efficiency auditing and the design of water efficiency improvement system, including water harvesting of all kinds.

Reid has worked with local and state government and industry, combining technical advice with a focus on capacity building. This allows the organisation to learn from the process and manage the ongoing implementation of sustainable water management measures themselves into the future. He has developed and delivered the IWES course “Essentials of water auditing” for the past two years and provides Sydney Water advice on auditing techniques.

He has contributed to projects around Australia achieving vast water savings by applying innovative water recycling techniques, including stormwater, groundwater and rainwater harvesting, innovative efficiency improvements and improvements to management practices and staff behaviours.

Damien Connell 

Damien Connell has a history of sustainability program development, implementation and facilitation between commercial, manufacturing and local government bodies and the residential sector.

He has worked at City West Water leading a team to assist businesses implement mandatory Water Management Plans, seek opportunities to use water efficiently and was the architect of the Support 155 Business program, a water efficiency program for smaller water using busniess customers as part of the Target 155 program. Damien has a history of working with local government to encourage sustainability policy and program development and working in the manufacturing sector for a number of years.

Damien is now part of a strategic working group reserching and analysing future water supply and demand opportunities for the future of Melbourne.

Mark Henry Rubarenzya 

Mark is a qualified civil and water resources engineer with experience primarily in Australia, Eastern Africa, and Europe. Mark has worked on a range of projects involving hydrologic and hydraulic modelling, Coal Seam Gas development, water balance modelling, and catchment/stormwater management. He has a high level of computer literacy and modelling skills including hydrological and ecological modelling, stakeholder land use mapping, and use of a range of industry standard 1D, 2D, and 3D packages. Mark is committed to the profession and serves on committees of various national and international organizations including the Australian Water Association, the Stormwater Industry Association of Australia, and the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Julian Gray 

Julian Gray is CEO of the Smart Approved WaterMark, Australia’s labelling program for products and services that save water. He combines an educational background in international communications and environmental science with 20 years’ environmental marketing and communications experience in the public, not-for-profit and private sectors. Julian has been involved in with a series of national, regional and international environmental branding projects in Australia and Europe including the H2Oz recruitment brand. Julian is a member of a number of professional organisations including the International Water Association, Chartered Institute of Marketing and Public Relations Institute of Australia. A Macquarie University Alumni, Julian is based in Sydney.

Stuart Stapely 

Stuart Stapely is a chartered water infrastructure professional with over 16 years of specialist knowledge in non-revenue water reduction and clean water civil engineering. He has a dedicated personal interest in the water industry and is passionate about making a positive impact on the natural and built environments.

His proficient project management skills have been gained through responsibility for a portfolio of diverse projects across Australia and overseas. Stuart's wealth of experience has been developed from the ground level up. He has the full range of non-revenue water skills from active leakage control and field monitoring through to designing water loss management strategies and auditing water authorities.

Stuart is the Victorian State Manager for WaterGroup, who develop strategies to secure water and save money through cost effective and sustainable solutions.