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Water Management Planning - Online Participation Area

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Overview

This page is intended to provide a brief summary of the objectives of soliciting your participation in this water management planning research project, and provides a gateway to the online water management evaluation survey.

Project Outcomes

Data collected through the online survey and other research methods outlined below will be used to:
  • Identify patterns/trends in state water management (without identifying specific people or organisations)
  • Develop policy priorities for water resources management.
The Queensland Environmental Protection Agency is assisting in this research, and will benefit by using the results to help develop statewide water management policies.

Project Descriptions

Nyree Stenekes

Exploratory study about water recycling in wastewater planning and management practice. The critical focus is on what factors influence the implementation of innovative wastewater technologies such as water recycling. Presently, the project scope encompasses institutional issues such as the human resource dimension (individuals), relations within the organisations and relations with external stakeholders and groups.

Daniel Livingston

Exploration of decision-making processes relating to decentralised water services provision -- multiple criteria, options and problem definitions. Similar institutional focus on individual and organisational capacity and relations with stakeholders. Context is decentralisation rather than recycling.

Purpose of Your Participation in this Research

Survey

The survey is in both written and online formats, and targets wastewater management engineers & planners in local government. The purpose of this survey is to understand your involvement, experiences and views of preparing or co-ordinating wastewater management strategies in your local area, with a particular emphasis on sustainable water management solutions that involve water recycling activities.

Interviews

Interviews are intended to explore deeper issues of organisational structure and change as it relates to sustainable water management, and to verify the broader survey and narrower case study results. Typically an interviewee may be asked what they see as sustainable water and wastewater provision, and what are the policy and planning issues that influence these outcomes.

Case Studies

Case studies explore the process of planning and implementing water and wastewater management strategies. The main means of gathering empirical information has been through the interview participation of a diverse range of people directly involved in the planning & management of current or recent projects. These interviews are usually supported by the collection and analysis of planning and management reports and documents.

Confidentiality :: How your information will be used

Confidential information will be protected. The information you provide will be used to highlight trends/patterns in water management without identifying specific people or organisations. For example, individual councils will not be named. An overview of results will be published on this website and in conference and/or journal papers as a means of disseminating the conclusions.

Related Publications

Nyree Stenekes

Stenekes, N., Colebatch H.K. & Waite D. (2003) Risk and governance in water recycling: 'public acceptance' revisited, Science Technology and Human Values, Submitted May 2003

Stenekes, N., Colebatch H.K. & Waite D. (2003) Water Recycling & Policy-making, 2nd National Water Recycling Conference, 1- 2 Sep, Brisbane 2003

Daniel Livingston

Livingston, D., Stenekes, N., Colebatch, H. K., Ashbolt, N. J. and Waite, T. D. (2004), Water management planning in local government: organisational factors impacting effective policy for sustainability, In Conference Proceedings, Sewage Management: Risk Assessment and Triple Bottom Line, April 4-6, Queensland EPA, Cairns.

Livingston, D., Ashbolt, N. J. and Colebatch, H. K. (2004), Urban water management as a changing socio-technical system: participation, decentralisation and sustainability, In Proceedings, 6th IWA Specialist Conference on Small Water & Wastewater Systems; and 1st International Conference on Onsite Wastewater Treatment & Recycling, February 11-13, Murdoch University, Fremantle.

Livingston, D. and Schäfer, A. (2002), Decentralised water management paradigms for sustainability, In, Lamborn, J. (Ed.), Conference Proceedings, Environmental Engineering Research Event, December 3-6, Blackheath.

Researchers' Contact Details

Nyree Stenekes

Ph: 02 6230 7723 (h/w)
Mob: 0419 257 102
Email: n.stenekes@student.unsw.edu.au
Supervisors: David Waite Ph 02 9385 5566 and
Hal Colebatch +67 32 249001 ext.1125

Daniel Livingston

Ph: 9385 5064 (w)
Mob: 0405 846 424
Email: daniel@civeng.unsw.edu.au
Supervisors: Nick Ashbolt Ph 02 9385 5946 and
Hal Colebatch +67 32 249001 ext.1125

Researchers' Affiliations

This research is being conducted through the University of New South Wales (School of Civil and Environmental Engineering), with the support of the Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality and Treatment, and the participation of the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency.
University of New South Wales School of Civil and Environmental Engineering     Cooperative Research Centre for Water Quality and Treatment     Queensland Environmental Protection Agency
  Centre for Water & Waste Technology
The University of New South Wales
Sydney 2052, Australia
Tel: 61-2-9385 5017   Fax: 61-2-9313 8624
Email: cwwt@unsw.edu.au

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