Clean Water and Sanitation

This Australia Awards Short Course focused on the environmental sustainability, urbanisation, climate change, energy usage, water management and food security challenges for all cities. Twenty-five participants from across Indonesia travelled to Australia for two weeks as part of the short course, equipping them with important knowledge and principles required to… Read More

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 PhD project aims to assess the viability of RWS as a growing medium for Trees on Buildings. Specific objectives of the project are: To identify the most suitable RWS design for Trees on Buildings, to discover the most compatible tree species for Trees on Buildings in Brisbane, and to… Read More

Although foreign direct investment (FDI) allows emerging market firms (EMFs) to experience various institutions and learn to innovate, we know little about the] effects of exposure to diverse institutions on EMFs’ environmental innovation—a sustainable approach to pursuing economic growth. Incorporating the institutional logics perspective with the learning-from-diversity… 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