Australia’s new integrated modeling system for

better water resources managementeWater Road Show 21 Feb – Part 1 of 5

Professor Gary JonesChief Executive, eWater CRC

GOVERNMENT CORPORATE RESEARCH

CRC = incorporated joint venture R&D partnership

Victorian Catchment Management Authorities

Department of Sustainability and Environment

Why a new modelling system?

Current models struggling to handle 21C complexity

Policy

Operations

Climate

Nationally consistent capability, integrating:

Cities, irrigation, hydroelectricity & environment

Conjunctive surface-water & ground-water use

Sub-catchment to Basin scales

Data rich and data poor settings

Planning and operational requirements

CLIMATE

LAND USE

ECOLOGICAL ASSETS

DAMS & WEIRS

IRRIGATION CITIES

.IMSIntegrated modelling system (IMS)

for rural and urban water management

Customisable for different rural and urban water management applications

Catchment & Rivers Urban

Irrigation Ecology

Utility models for specialists

www.toolkit.net.au

17,000 users across 122 countries

Value of road-testing with partners

Testing

Training

Community of practice

SEQ

Nattai/Cattai

Goulburn-Broken

GBR

ACT

Yarra River

Murray icon sites

Mount Lofty Ranges

River Murray

Namoi

Macintyre Brook

NEXT – The Tamar experience

Tony Weber, BMT WBM