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The role of assessment tools in a sustainability framework for the Australian water industry

dc.contributor.author Lundie, S en_US
dc.contributor.author Peters, G en_US
dc.contributor.author Ashbolt, Nicholas en_US
dc.contributor.author Lai, Elizabeth en_US
dc.contributor.author Livingston, Daniel en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2021-11-25T13:24:00Z
dc.date.available 2021-11-25T13:24:00Z
dc.date.issued 2007 en_US
dc.description.abstract Over the last decade, water cycle management has become an increasingly challenging marketplace of ideas. Citizens have demanded increasingly higher environmental performance from their water service providers, while governments demand greater financial efficiency and the service providers cope with population and climatic pressure. At the same time, the range of practical information tools and planning approaches available to water cycle managers has expanded, including strategic environmental tools such as life cycle assessment, health risk methodologies like quantitative microbial risk analysis, cost assessment techniques like life cycle costing and approaches to public engagement like choice modelling (Blamey et al., 1998). Despite these intellectual developments, some institutions outside the industry have argued for a return to simpler cost-benefit analysis. Under these circumstances in which the variety of practical, political and intellectual influences on water cycle planning has grown, managers are looking for clarity on the best ways to plan for the future development of their water, sewerage and stormwater systems. A consortium of researchers from the Centre for Water and Waste Technology, the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (UNSW, Sydney), the Sustainable Water Division of the NSW Department of Commerce (Sydney) and Chalmers Industriteknik (Chalmers University, Sweden) worked together for the Water Services Association of Australia to develop a sustainability framework for evaluating urban water systems. The objective of the project was to develop a common methodology for evaluating the overall sustainability of alternative options for urban water systems. This includes large-scale options for cities as well as configurations of water sensitive urban developments or single high rise developments. In particular the project aimed for a common methodology for evaluating overall sustainability of alternative options for urban water systems, noting the range in alternative tools and approaches currently being used. This article describes the key tools and outcomes of the project. en_US
dc.identifier.isbn 9780908255672 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/39550
dc.language English
dc.language.iso EN en_US
dc.publisher AWA en_US
dc.rights CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 en_US
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ en_US
dc.source Legacy MARC en_US
dc.title The role of assessment tools in a sustainability framework for the Australian water industry en_US
dc.type Conference Paper en
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unsw.publisher.place Sydney en_US
unsw.relation.faculty Engineering
unsw.relation.ispartofconferenceLocation Sydney, Australia en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofconferenceName Ozwater 2007 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofconferenceProceedingsTitle Ozwater en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofconferenceYear 2007 en_US
unsw.relation.ispartofpagefrompageto 1-2 en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Lundie, S, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Peters, G, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Ashbolt, Nicholas, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Lai, Elizabeth, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation Livingston, Daniel, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW en_US
unsw.relation.school School of Civil and Environmental Engineering *
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