Sustainable Water Use

Focus on issues concerning water quality in rivers and reservoirs; on urban stormwater runoff; on wastewater treatment and reuse; and on groundwater hydrodynamics and quality.

Research Skills include:

• Characterisation and modelling of surface water and groundwater interactions;
• Linking hydrological models with climate models to forecast rivers and dam inflows;
• Assessment of sustainable yield of aquifers & artificial recharge potentials;
• Farm and system level hydrologic--economic evaluation;
• Water use efficiency in urban and rural catchments;
• Resource conservation, waste water management and recycling technologies;
• Water and energy nexus; and
• Water trading and its impact on managing climate change and variability

Members include:

• Dr Ian Brodie (Group Leader) 
• Dr Vasantha Aravinthan
• Dr Chuxia Lin
• Dr Ruth Mossad
• Dr Shahbaz Mushtaq (Deputy Director, Research)

Associate members include:

• Heinz DeChelard (Earth Tech P/L, Vic)
• Dr Greg DeCosta  (TOPNZ, NZ)
• Prof Metzka (University of Deggendorf, Germany)
• Erik Schmidt (NCEA).