Focus Areas

Focus Theme

The Institute for Sustainable Water Resources has members with expertise across a broad-range of water-related areas, including:

Integrated urban water management (including technical, social & institutional issues): Ana Deletic, Tim fletcher, Grace Mitchell, Tony Ladson
Groundwater management: Gavin Mudd
Monitoring technologies
Waterway management: Tony Ladson
Flood and floodplain management: Erwin Weinmann
Estuary management: Jon Hinwood
Wastewater and industrial water management: Andrew Hoadley, Paul Webley
Hydraulic modeling: Bob Keller

Strategic research areas

Within this focus area, a number of strategic research areas have been adopted:

Scalable and integrated technologies to improve the sustainability of water resources across the urban water cycle: Tim Fletcher, Ana Deletic, Grace Mitchell, Tony Ladson
Alternative sources and allocation of urban water, including treatment and storage: Grace Mitchell
Interactions between ground water and surface water, and the implications for ground water management: Gavin Mudd
Institutional reform to facilitate the sustainable management of water resources: Rebekah Brown, Andre Taylor
Interactions between urban water management and ecosystems, and the services provided by urban aquatic ecosystems: Tony Ladson, Tim Fletcher, James Grove
Ecological and geomorphic restoration of urban waterways: Tony Ladson, James Grove