Goal 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation

The Capacity Building Program in Integrated River Basin Management (Nepal) aims to promote sustainable water resource management in Nepal by building capacity among Nepali professionals. The program focuses on developing skills in integrated river basin management, supporting reform in water and land management structures, and strengthening strategic capacity across organisations. Read More

This Australia Awards Short Course took a systems approach to water utility reform and performance improvement starting from water resources through to water supply and wastewater services. Twenty-seven participants from across Indonesia travelled to Australia for two weeks as part of the short course, providing information on the opportunities and… Read More

Thailand faces challenges with managing water quality in many of its reservoirs due to pressure from agricultural, domestic, and industrial pollution coupled with urbanization, increasing demand and climate change. The Royal Irrigation Department (RID) joined Australian experts to gain knowledge and strategies to monitor, prevent and decrease water quality impacts. Read More

The Leaf Collective pilot program aimed to encourage and support householders and community groups to engage in behaviours to prevent native leaf litter (fallen leaves, twigs, bark, flowers and nuts) from entering stormwater drains.

The aims of this project are to investigate the occurrence and fate of microplastics (a class of contaminant of emerging concern) in treated sewage sludge (biosolids), and the effects that they may have on soils and crops. This has been done by analysing microplastics in biosolid and agricultural soil receiving… Read More

This project aims to develop a novel framework that uses big data from satellites to assess the impacts of droughts and water extraction on groundwater resources in Australia, currently poorly understood and difficult to monitor. This project expects to generate new insights into the mechanisms driving changes in groundwater availability… Read More

The purpose for this project is to update the existing hydrodynamic-microbial models for the Mid-Brisbane River with the latest three-year data from 2020 to 2022. These three years are particularly wet than other years and represent an opportunity to better understand the microbial conditions in the river system during a… Read More

The objective of this project is to develop, complete, and publish a set of best practice guidelines for lake modelling to support Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment and to apply the best practice guidelines to develop a lake model for one reservoir operated by Hunter Water. This objective underpins the water… Read More

The objective of this project is to develop, complete, and publish a set of best practice guidelines for lake modelling to support Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment and to apply the best practice guidelines to develop a lake model for one reservoir operated by Hunter Water. This objective underpins the water… Read More

Building on our earlier work and ongoing partnerships, using both formative and action research combined with regional knowledge sharing opportunities (two peer-to-peer learning exchange events), this research seeks to better understand ways that government and civil society organisations (CSOs) engaged in the WASH sector can leverage formal, as well as… Read More