Below is a list of upcoming events:
Water Drinks
Date: 24th Feb, 2020 - 24th Feb, 2020
Time: 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Venue: Boatbuilders Yard
Address: 23 South Wharf Promenade, South Wharf, 3006
Organiser: Clearwater
Phone: 03 9679 7711
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Water Drinks
Monday 24th Feb 2020 5:30PM - 8:00PM
Boatbuilders Yard
23 South Wharf Promenade, South Wharf, 3006
Clearwater and Stormwater Victoria host a tri-annual networking event for practitioners involved in stormwater management and Integrated Water Management (IWM). We call it 'Water Drinks' but don't despair - wine and beer are on the menu.
This popular drinks event is an opportunity to connect with colleagues in the industry and to share ideas, experience and perspectives in an informal environment.
February 2020 drinks will be held in the delightful riverside Decks room at the Boatbuilders Yard on South Wharf. The event will include an entertaining interview style presentation on practical WSUD research projects being led by the Melbourne Waterway Research-Practice Partnership and the CRC for Water Sensitive Cities.
You will also have the opportunity to play with a new augmented reality WSUD digital learning tool. The tool actively demonstrates to users how to construct a raingarden and checks their learning outcomes at completion of the task.
Inclusions
Cocktail snacks and two drinks of your choice.
RSVP
Friday 14 February
TESTIMONIALS:
“I met sooo many new people.”
“I find it a great way to touch base with people in the industry I don't often get to see in person.”
“I think this is a great, accessible opportunity for all sectors of the industry to get together. The informality helps to break down barriers and the food and drink gets the conversation going. The regular occurrence and late afternoon start makes it more workable for people to drop-in/drop-out according to their other commitments. I hope these events continue well into the future.”
Enquiries:
p: 9679 7711
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Stormwater 2020 National Conference
Date: 17th Jun, 2020 - 19th Jun, 2020
Time: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm
Venue: Crown Promenade Melbourne
Address: 8 Whiteman Street Southbank VIC 3006
Organiser: Stormwater Australia
Phone: +61 2 9744 5252
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New Frontiers for Stormwater: Into the Next Decade
On behalf of Stormwater Australia and the Conference Working Group, we invite you to join us at STORMWATER 2020, the 6th National Conference on Urban Water Management convened by Stormwater Australia, to be held from Wednesday, 17th to Friday, 19th June at the Crown Promenade Melbourne, VIC.
With over 300 delegates anticipated, it will be the one stop shop for industry professionals looking to keep abreast of contemporary practice, share ideas with their peers and make new contacts that can be invaluable in their everyday work.
The 2020 Conference theme is: New Frontiers for Stormwater – Into The Next Decade.
We face profound challenges to manage our co-dependent urban and rural areas into the next decade. Population growth and climate change is driving rapid changes to the natural and human environment including declining waterway health and increasing flood risks. These challenges involve behaviours, policy settings and society expectations in linked economic, social and environmental systems. A systems approach is needed to transform our science, governance, practice, policy and culture to resolve these continually evolving problems and understand the trade-offs. How can we explain these complex challenges to our colleagues and instigate change within society?
Does increased urban density provide sustainable outcomes or result in declining liveability? Our knowledge, experience and culture are also rapidly evolving into the next decade. Perhaps these evolving opportunities will meet to challenges of the next decade and transform our urban and rural areas. How will this happen? The evolution of systems thinking, recognition of circular economies and the connectivity of scales, increased diversity, better connected networks of people, digital twins and legacy knowledge from our first peoples are the new frontiers. This might influence local actions to deliver global benefits to people and ecosystems.
As with previous years, we will be holding our National Excellence Awards at the Conference Dinner, and will be rounding the event program with a number of social and networking events.
We look forward to working together with all of you "into the next decade". See you in Melbourne in June 2020!