Themes

Theme 1: Water education, literacy and citizenship

• transition education for environmental sustainability
• UVa and UM collaborating on developing the Bay Game for Australian water management issues.  http://www.virginia.edu/baygame/
• UK Economics and Social Research Council funds have been obtained for the first component of this
• UConn is setting up a large capacity building proejct in Ethiopia (funded by USAid). U21 water experts are required for short-term teaching and graduate supervision.

Theme 2: Urban river corridors

• multi-disciplinary performance assessment for sustainability of restored river reaches
• Project development workshop, University of Delhi, 12-13 November 2010
• See below for the draft workshop report

Theme 3: Innovation strategies for city water systems 

• a critical examination of the new modelling frameworks for sustainability assessment
• Project development stage

Theme 4: Tracking the fate and transport of endocrine disrupting chemicals and phamaceutical and personal care products in ecosystems

• UoA EDC project, June 2010
• Repot from EDC Workshop, January 2009
• EDC project update

Theme 5: Sustainable waterfronts development

• Workshop report

Theme 6: Recycled Water

• Project Development Workshop took place in November 2011
• Outline position paper in progress

Theme 7: Urban water governance

• Project development workshop held at Lund University, 29-30 August 2011 
• Position Paper published February 2012 (download below)