Projects

Working across six municipalities and three different climate zones, researchers are beginning to better understand how rural communities can sustainably manage available water resources for improved food and water security through social science and hydrological research. This project is funded by ACIAR.

The FoodWISE Asia-Pacific Network is a new platform for sustained regional engagement, shared learning, and coordinated action on food and water security. The Network brings together voices and fosters collaboration across local, national and global levels.

UNSW-GWI regularly supports the Water Policy Group in carrying out global surveys of National Water Leaders, where those with national water leadership responsibilities are invited to share their experience, perspectives and opinions on water policy issues. The resulting reports often provide inputs into important intergovernmental processes.

Together with the Water Authority of Fiji, UNSW is working to improve water quality in Fiji by increasing capabilities of water treatment plants. Experts are working to establish a Hydrologic Information Management System and a forecasting model to predict turbidity levels within the main tributaries to water treatment processing plants.

Through research, education, cross-faculty collaboration and partnership with hospital executives and stakeholders, we are supporting the restoration and revitalisation of outdoor spaces within the Royal Hospital for Women in Randwick. Using nature-based solutions, the revitalisation will facilitate better connection to nature and to one another.

In collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), members of the UNSW water community studied linkages between water and climate within three Pacific Small Island Developing States – Palau, Tonga and Timor-Leste. This important work is enabling informed decision-making for investments in climate adaptation.

Data centres are significant consumers of energy and water, and are not yet well provided for in hot or highly variable climates. UNSW has transdisciplinary expertise that is assisting with advancing Australia's approach, bringing together key researchers in Artificial Intelligence, energy, city planning, industrial decarbonisation and water.