Water Planners Forums

Citation

Land & Water Australia. 2009. Water Planners Forums. [Online] (Updated April 28th, 2009)
Available at: http://lwa.gov.au/node/3300 [Accessed Tuesday 26th of April 2011 02:01:12 PM ].

The National Water Commission, in partnership with Land & Water Australia, is currently investing in a number of water planning and policy projects.

As part of this investment, building an informal “community of practice” for water planners through regular contact and sharing of information and ideas is a key component. In February 2009, the second Water Planner’s Forum was held to bring together water planners from across the country to discuss issues they identified as being important.

The two issues examined in detail were:

the impacts of climate change for water planning and
the socio-economic implications of water planning and policy

Prior to the meeting, a number of background documents on the two issues were circulated to participants, as well as a participants list that provided details of all the people who attended, including a summary of water planning activities in their jurisdiction. In addition, a Mythic River scenario was developed to bring the two issues “alive” and enable the participants to tackle a problem using real data.

Overall, the Water Planners Forum was a successful event, with most participants feeling that they derived some benefit in attending. The most successful aspect of the Forum was the bringing together of people with common work responsibilities, yet often different biophysical and regulatory constraints to work within.

Land and Water Australia and the National Water Commission are exploring ways to assist Water Planners to continue to liaise with each other and share information.

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Water Planners Forum Agenda and Participants [458kb PDF]
Water Planners Forum Mythic River Scenarios [1935kb PDF]
Water Planners Forum Background Reading [5471kb PDF]
Water Planners Forum Overview.pdf [267kb PDF]