WATER E-JOURNAL 2020

V.Shah, D.Turner, C.Hancock, P.O’Donoghue, A.Sneddon, J.Stanmore, A.Morrow, A.Lundmark, J.Bates, A.Hanson

Grahamstown Dam (capacity about 182,000 ML), Hunter Water’s largest dam, is a broad, relatively shallow, man-made, off-river storage that is primarily used to…

K Braun, J Klaric, J Ireland

TRILITY has developed a production cloud data management solution, KOIOS DatalytiX to provide hybrid machine learning applications and deterministic modelling tools to its operations, asset management, and…

H Hall, D Moodie, C Vero

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are incredibly useful additives, often providing excellent surface tension-lowering properties to a material. Due to the extensive use of PFAS in daily life in developed countries PFAS invariably collects…

E Johnson

Water supply and delivery inefficiencies increase the overall costs of water distribution networks, which is ultimately paid for by the customer through increased water prices or by society through cross-subsidisation…

J.Vanderzalm, B.Naumann, S.Higginson, D.Page, A.Jones, V.Moscovis, S.Hamilton, D.Gonzalez, G.Dandy, K.Barry, P.Dillon, H.Prommer, M.Donn

Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) can improve water security by using aquifers to store water…

C Beal, B Dorante, P Pearson, S Aldirawi, N Abdallah

Ensuring safe, accessible and acceptable drinking water in remote communities in Australia requires culturally and socially appropriate, technically feasible and economically viable approaches. Arguably…

A Peters, B Liang, H Tian, Z Li, C Doolan, D Vitanage, H Norris, K Simpson, Y Wang, F Chen

One critical aspect of overall water supply management is to monitor drinking water quality across the entire water delivery network. Compared with a model-based approach for water…

A Sathasivan, G Kastl, I Fisher

To ensure public health safety, water supplied to consumers should meet both microbiological and disinfection by-product (DBP) requirements. Water utilities are ensuring microbiological safety of water, but there …

Q Bechet, X Philoleau, M Mellado-Ruiz, A Siqueira, M Aguilar

Inspection and condition assessments of network infrastructure are critical for water utilities and city councils to ensure the structural integrity and functionality of sewer pipes and…

L Kuskopf, M Sheehan, A Whelan

There are potentially many thousands of municipally derived contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) present in discharged wastewaters that may cause adverse effects in receiving aquatic environments…

L Powell, HS Lim, I Brown, T Huang, N Munksgaard, M Randall, J Holdsworth, H Cook

With little data available on the quality of stormwater discharging from urban catchments to the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), the driver for the Smart…

D Livingston

Third pipe systems for recycled water are on the periphery of options for more resilient urban water management in the face of water scarcity. A number of schemes in the Australian water industry provide …

T Brockbank, E Afoa

The economic, social, amenity, and environmental values of water sensitive urban design (WSUD) are widely understood, often seen in practice, and well documented. However, cultural connection and indigenous knowledge within these…

F Tessele, J B van Lier

A ‘systemic approach’ to the concept of acircular economyis essential, as it aims to consider the interactions and dependencies of every contributing factor in the production process rather than treating each one as a separate…

R Nikoloska, L Bykerk, D Vitanage, J V Miro, F Chen, Y Wang, B Liang, S Verma

Leaks and breaks pose a great challenge for every water network around the world. These challenges include disruptions to customer services, costly pipe maintenance and unaccounted water loss…

M Frangos, B Moggridge, T Webb, T Bassani, P Duncan

This paper examines the notion of the original water industry, presenting the argument that there was in fact an original water industry of which Indigenous Australians were the…

A Reidy, B Mason

Sustainability is a lens for integrated analysis and decision making in public water infrastructure. Water projects are complex and form part of a wider network of services with linkages and inter-relationships across…

W McCance, OAH Jones, A Surapaneni, M Currell

Assessing contamination impacts on groundwater resources to meet ongoing regulatory requirements can be difficult. This is particularly relevant for Wastewater Treatment Plants…

J Barnes, J Todhunter, R Wong

With increased pressure on wastewater utilities to accommodate population growth and pursue lower nutrient discharge targets, it is important to better understand the social and economic impacts of these drivers. This will ensure…

G Bharambe, C McKewen

Gladstone Regional Council (GRC) has recently developed a Biofutures Strategy for the Gladstone region. This strategy is in line with “Gladstone Region 2035 Vision” to achieve world-class environmental leadership to…

L Roberts, J Stewart, Dr N Davis

Mackay Regional Council’s social marketing strategy was introduced to enable and support the implementation of a Demand Management Program. The strategy engaged and educated customers in the Mackay Region…

A KremorM CruddenB Warman

Electricity prices and price volatility in the Australian National Electricity Market have both increased significantly over the past two years, driven by transformational changes to the electricity generation mix and fuel costs. Electricity costs represent…

K Davies, C Doolan, A Northam, R Shi

There is increasing pressure being placed on water resources globally, arising from external factors such as climate change impacts, changing community values, population growth and urbanisation. In response, there…

D Ferguson

Sustained growth of Western Australia’s economy and population brought about a doubling of the state’s water use in the thirty years following 1985. Over the same period climate change intensified in the state’s south…

D Healy, D Middleton, A Salveson, D Owen, J Bishop, N Turner

Seqwater is beginning a three-year process to validate process performance and gain community acceptance and regulatory approval for indirect potable reuse through its Western Corridor Recycled Water Scheme. The current…

K.Nguyen, R.Stewart, H.Zhang, C.Jones, N.Siriwardene, A.Brown, A.Radion, J.Crook, M.Stevens, N.Smith, D.Giurco, M.Blumenstein, S.Rahim

Determining the end uses of water in residential properties can facilitate a more proactive approach towater literacy, awareness and demand…

ASM Mohiuddin, P Cox, B Blayney

Sydney’s eleven dams can store 2,581 billion litres of raw water (the largest, Warragamba Dam can store 2,027 billion litres water (Figure 1). Nine water filtration plants (WFPs) in Sydney produce 600 billion litres of drinking water every…

P Bonk, J Klaric

The water industry has entered an era where vast amounts of data are being produced from numerous sensors monitoring the network. This ‘big data’ provides potential …