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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