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WQRA MEMBERS MEETINGS are listed on a separate page. FORTHCOMING EVENTS 5th
IWA Young Water Professionals Conference - Sydney, Australia 5-7 July
2010 PAST EVENTS NOTE: Presentations are the copyright of the author and should not be reproduced without permission. Cryptosporidium Workshop - Melbourne, 8 December 2009
WQRA provided sponsorship for the Plenary Presentation by Associate Professor Greg Leslie (UNSW) on Thursday 24th (chaired by WQRA CEO Jodieann Dawe) and the Decentralised Systems Workshop (facilitated by Water Futures) on Friday 25th, where David Halliwell presented the outcomes of the WQRA Decentralised Systems Workshop held on 27th August 2009. Distributed Systems Workshop - Brisbane, 27 August 2009 This workshop was held in conjunction with the WQRA Members meeting in Brisbane on 28 August. Distributed (or decentralised) systems are growing in their development, implementation and application across Australia. In particular, they are providing solutions for water supply, reducing potable water demand, with the provision of recycled water from blackwater, greywater and industrial or commercial wastewaters. This workshop will explore issues and concerns that relate to distributed systems, focussing on water quality aspects, particularly those associated with public health issues, that research effort could respond to. One of the intended outcomes of the workshop is to explore areas that could be developed into Research Proposals for consideration by Water Quality Research Australia (WQRA). WQRA engaged Water Futures to assist with the survey process and workshop facilitation. PDF files of the presentations given at the Workshop and Workshop Minutes are available to download.
National
Cyanobacteria Workshop - Sydney, 12 & 13 August 2009
In the longer term, options for supporting national coordination and sharing of information will be developed in consultation with workshop attendees. This would include support for a communication network, electronic means to store and share information, an annual forum and a mechanism to address national priorities. It was recognised that to make this successful a dedicated resource was required. Identification of funding opportunities would be explored during the development of these options. WQRA has taken on the role of coordinating the development of a package of work that will support national coordination of algal management. Congratulations to the organisers, presenters, attendees
and supporters of the workshop, and we will keep you informed about
further developments and outcomes. The abstracts of all presenters were compiled in
a booklet Cyanobacterial
Bloom Management – Current and Future Options and provided
to workshop attendees. For economy of space, the version provided here
has had the notes pages removed, leaving the program and all abstracts.
In the coming weeks all presenters will be asked to obtain clearance
to make their talks available on the WQRA website. As permission is
received PDF versions of the presenters' talks will be linked to the
list of speakers below. Recommendations from the Workshop will be disseminated and more information will become available in the near future.
'Cyanosurvey'
project Lagoon/Pond Treatment Systems Workshop - Sydney, 28 May 2009 The purpose of this workshop was to engage relevant stakeholders to discuss a WQRA research proposal on lagoon/ pond treatment systems. The desired outcome (on the day) was to identify research needs/gaps of the managers, regulators and operators of lagoon/pond treatment systems as well as areas for improvement/refinement in the current WQRA proposal. Notes from final workshop session. The outcome (in the medium term) will be the development of an updated project proposal to be presented to relevant stakeholders to assess interest in, and need for, WQRA to progress a lagoon/ pond treatment system project. All speakers have given permission to make their presentations available as a PDF file. A pre-workshop survey was circulated to all Member organisations before the workshop to gather information about current practices in lagoon systems, and the collated results are also available here. Anyone wishing to discuss aspects of the workshop or proposed project can contact: Dr Helen Stratton ( Griffith University ) h.stratton@griffith.edu.au
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