NSW Legends of Water 2024

Dan Berry

Dan Berry has over 40 years of experience as the Manager of NSW’s Water System Operations, through the ongoing series of floods and droughts. He is now using that experience to provide operational insights on water reform to governments and communities.
Dan was responsible for implementation of statewide bulk water operations for all major rural valleys in NSW as well as the Greater Sydney supply, including flood operations, IT systems, and consultation with irrigation, environmental and policy stakeholders. 
Dan’s career continues as a practitioner in integrating all the aspects of water reform, particularly directing these reforms to achieve environmental and productivity outcomes.  
Dan has a degree in civil engineering and has completed a substantial portion of an MBA.  

Dianne Thomas  

Dianne Thomas 

Dianne has enjoyed a successful career in the delivery of water infrastructure, starting as a construction engineer building a number of significant assets, from Cascade Water Treatment Plant and
Myponga Water Treatment in the nineties to desalination infrastructure more recently.  
Dianne served on the AWA Committee from the 00’s to the mid 10’s. She is also a Fellow of Engineers Australia, having been active in mentoring of younger engineers. 

Dianne believes it has been a privilege to work in the water industry. It has been fun working with enthusiastic, intelligent people passionate about health, community and the environment.  

Doug Moorby

Doug Moorby

Doug Moorby spent most of his youth in and around Canberra ACT and in various overseas locations. After leaving school in 1971 he was employed as an apprentice Plumber by a Melbourne plumbing company that contracted to Esso-BHP, this led to a transfer to BHP and the addition of a fitting and machining qualification. Various jobs overseas and offshore plus a pair of itchy feet meant Doug traveled and gained extensive experience. This was in the fields of hydraulics, pumping, machinery maintenance and his first introduction to water and wastewater treatment, followed by a brief period working at a NSW Local Water Utility 
A career change to the Public Health Sector in the late seventies saw him spend the next 15 years as a NSW Paramedic. A move from direct health care into the world of Bio Medical Engineering in 1995 saw his interest in the world of Water and Wastewater rekindled while working on UF Filtration systems associated with dialysis machines. This eventually brought him full circle and back into the world of construction and Local Water and Wastewater Utilities Management.  
In 2009 Doug returned to NSW as the Water and Sewer Engineer at Lachlan Shire Council in Condobolin This was followed by a move to Narromine Shire Council where he has worked as Manager of Utilities since 2013. Doug has been very passionate about his role as Chairman of the Orana Water Utility Alliance and as a member of the Executive Board of the NSW Water Directorate for the last five years.   

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