Australia’s urban water industry faces ongoing challenges of increased urban growth and intensification, impacting on water use, sewage and stormwater loads, and urban liveability with changing consumer values in service attributes, such as health, environment, green space reliability and cost. For a long time Australia has enjoyed a thriving urban water research and development sector, that on an international level, is well regarded and productive. Sustained research investments over many years have placed Australia on par with world leaders in water quality management, recycling, desalination, groundwater and integrated water management and asset management. However, with economic regulation driving the need to not only achieve but to demonstrate investment efficiency, as well as a major contraction in national urban water R&D funding from an estimated $100-130M/year in 2013 to $40-50M/year in 2015, now is an opportune time to review our approach to national urban water research and development investment.

During the Webinar Dr Ted Gardner offered the following web links addressing water research:

https://www.waterportal.com.au/
http://www.urbanwateralliance.org.au/index.html
http://www.awrdc.org.au/index.htm
http://www.waterra.com.au/publications/

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