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Dear Clearwater Newsletter Subscriber,
Welcome to the latest update from the Clearwater team. |
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Friday 8 November 2013
Managing your WSUD assets effectively can provide council and your community with a multitude of benefits. Join Melbourne Water Stormwater team and Clearwater for a breakfast session to hear about emerging best-practice stormwater asset management, and enjoy a unique opportunity to share knowledge with other councils and practitioners on managing WSUD assets.
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Thursday 14 November 2013
Join Clearwater and the City of Melbourne on this new tour which features an impressive variety of (mostly retrofit) Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) and Integrated Water Management (IWM) project sites throughout the Melbourne CBD.
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Tuesday 3 December 2013
This highly recommended tour, led by Alan West, provides a valuable opportunity to view an impressive variety of established raingardens, as well as an award-winning stormwater harvesting system implemented in an old industrial estate. The City of Kingston has been a leader in retrofitting Water Sensitive Urban Design projects for over ten years and has built expertise in design, construction, community consultation and maintenance.
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21 October 2013
The Melbourne Water Living Rivers program has undergone a review recently, resulting in a different approach to its funding governance and a refocus of program objectives from primarily capacity building to an outcome focus for waterway/bay health and multiple community benefits...
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28 October 2013
A few places are still left in the International WaterCentre Water Leadership Program. Designed for emerging water leaders at the project to middle management level, the Program is customised for the water sector through sound research and collaboration with experienced industry practitioners.
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23 October 2013
The AWA VIC Summit is a key industry forum Clearwater supports and attends each year. Held on Tuesday 22 October at the Langham Hotel in Southbank, this year's theme was 'Smart Living'.
The day featured a range of presenters with a big element of most presenting on the changing face of customers across the water industry. The changing face of the level of interaction we have with our customers, the boom in communication via social media, customers on the go and the increasing expectation of access to information on a 24/7 basis.
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14 October 2013
This editorial piece by Professor Tony Wong from the CRC for Water Sensitive Cities, provides an interesting read on the future of the Australian urban water sector.
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28 October 2013
?The Growing Green Guide Melbourne have released the draft version of Victoria's Guide to Green Roofs, Walls and Facades.?? Feedback on the draft Guide is encouraged and open until 18 November.
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12 October 2013
Melbourne's new metropolitan planning strategy, Plan Melbourne, was released by Premier Denis Napthine and Minister for Planning Matthew Guy in early October. It sets out the government's vision for the city to 2050. A vision that responds to the challenges of population growth, driving economic prosperity and liveability, while protecting the environment and heritage...
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28 October 2013
On Friday 25October 2013, Clearwater in partnership with Melbourne Water deliveredHot Topics: Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of IWCM.
The workshop provided participants with an opportunity to hear from industry peers and experts around the many difficulties faced when costing intangible benefits during the implementation of IWCM and WSUD projects...
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