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What is The Warren Centre?

• Independent, non-profit institute
• Helping to create wealth for Australia
• Driven by industry
• Excellence and Innovation in Advanced Technology

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Warren Centre Umbrella

• Committee structure
• Volunteers
• Funds raised in the early 80's

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Excellence and Innovation in Technology

• Stimulating the application and further
  development of new engineering technology
• Encouraging the integration of innovation and
  engineering technology into the development of
  Australias public policy and wealth creation
• Providing independent comment and advice to
  government and industry on these and related
  issues.

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Typical Project Outputs

• A permanent record
• A series of workshops, seminars and lectures.
• A permanent embodiment.
• The people working on the project go back to
  their day jobs and behave differently

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A few examples of Project Outcomes

• Sustainable Transport in Sustainable Cities
• Recommendations adopted in Sydney and methods
  copied elsewhere
• Underground space
• building its use into the fabric of urban design
• Fire Safety and Engineering
• Performance based building codes in Australia and
  overseas

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The Warren Centre Water Metrication
ProjectIntroduction
Peter Fagan, Project Director
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Central Hypothesis

• If we had more information of better quality than
  currently available, then all the decisions that
  we make, from day to day operations through to
  policy setting, would yield water savings and,
  ultimately, greater value for the nation.

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Water Metrication Steering Committee

• Alex Walker
• Charles Essery NSW Department of Energy and
  Utilities
• Christopher Moran CSIRO
• Geoff Winter The Warren Centre
• Gordon McKay Bureau of Meteorology
• Hugh Ralston
• James Ball UNSW
• John Brooks Proteus Management Group
• Kerry Frost Galaxy Innovation Design
• Michael Dureau The Warren Centre
• Peter Cummins
• Peter Fagan Analysis
• Peter Gregg The Warren Centre
• Roger Henderson Earth Resources Foundation
• Tim Cox

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Changed Approach to Resource Management
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Initial discussions gave 3 options

• Urban Water disaggregation
• Remote area potable water
• Catchment management systems

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Catchment Management focused on

• How do we make better decisions?
• Better, more timely information!
• Engage all stakeholders!

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Complexity of Information Flow and Stakeholder
Interactions
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Decline in the Quality of Measurements Over the
Recent Years in NSW Confidence Limits from DIPNR
Hydsys Database at 1 Site
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Decline in the Quality of Measurements Over the
Recent Years in NSW Confidence Limits from DIPNR
Hydsys Database at 1 Site
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Quality of Data in One NSW River Catchment from
1990 to Present
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Case Examples where we have suffered from lack of
data

• Recent dispute between Irrigation Company and
  NSW State Water
• Two measurement points close to main off-take
  from river system
• Large difference between State Water and
  Irrigation Company in measured amount of water
  taken (about 70 gigalitres in the last irrigation
  year)
• Dispute over approximately 750,000 in Charges

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Case Examples where we have suffered from lack of
data

• Sydney Water Crisis 1998
• Little understanding of storage behaviour
• Poor historical data on quality issues
• Poor system dynamics understanding
• Poor Management Training in Incident Response
• Consequences
• Political Interference and over reaction
• Split management accountability
• Fixes focused on the wrong areas
• Waste of resources
• Leading to a less sustainable water supply for
  Sydney

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What aspects are critical to sustainable
management?

• Performance improvement systems
• Hands on policing
• Honesty from water users
• Water sharing
• Climate Change
• Usage practices eg irrigation, industry, urban
  residential
• Reuse/multiple use (including Stormwater)

• Water Quality
• Current Usage/peoples behaviours
• Industry
• Population growth in Urban Centres
• Maintaining Environmental Flows

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What information do you need for sustainable
management?

• Real time measurement of quantity
• Real time measurement of quality
• Testing data from entry points

• Appropriate flow information (catchment and
  usage)
• Real Time Water Quality measurement
• Real time rainfall
• System Operation Information
• Ecosystem health
• Catchment activity monitors
• Interconnections (eg., Ground to Surface)

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Process

• Identify stakeholders
• Determine information needs from business-case
  analysis
• Determine information availability
• Identify gaps
• Determine how best to acquire, manage, provide
  access.

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Water Metrication Project Stages
Data and Quality assessment
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5 Catchments
Series of single issue papers from Users
stakeholders etc Integration of single
papers Position overall
Audit, overviews, stakeholders risk profile,
issues.
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Model Economics Commercial Physical Political So
cial
Development of model/framework of interactions
and relationships
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Options
Physical, Technological, Institutional
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Recommendations
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Final output
Communications
Stakeholders, regional and national
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What is the current short-list

• Hunter (NSW)
• Murrumbidgee (NSW)
• Barwon (Vic.)
• Burdekin/Bowen (Qld.)
• Hawkesbury Nepean (NSW)

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The Hunter is first because

• It is a clearly defined catchment
• It is a major river in NSW
• It has a variety of water-dependent industries
• It has many active stakeholders
• It is well studied
• It presents a very good test case for the approach

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Hawkesbury/Nepean is last because

• Politically extremely sensitive
• It is extremely Complex
• It has many competing water users
• It has many competing resource managers
• It is the principal supply source for the high
  growth Sydney Basin
• It is well studied ???????
• Has plenty of Water (what the government is
  saying, if we have usage restrictions)???????????
• Is over managed ????
• There is a need to resolve the policy issues and
  frameworks

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Project Outcomes

• Short Term
• Greater recognition and understanding of the
  data needs for decision making. Greater
  recognition by all of the need to maintain long
  term data sets. Greater ability to share data.
• Medium Term
• Greater reliability of data available to all
  decision makers, in particular those responsible
  for all aspects of catchment management from
  Governments down to farm or enterprise level.
  Greater uniformity of data available to all
  regulators, operators, suppliers and users
  regardless of role, State, season or weather
  cycle.
• Long Term
• Better decisions will have lead to better
  outcomes for the Economy, Environment, and Society