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Transitioning into a Water Sensitive City

Speaker Series31 March 2017

With SME partners:

Story about something that seemed like a

good idea then went horribly wrong…

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Welcome

• What is the CRC?

• Water Sensitive Cities in Perth

• Nature of transitions

• Using an Index

• Other transition tools

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Our Vision Cities and towns of the future will be sustainable, productive, resilient and liveable

Why we exist

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The CRC exists to help change the way we build our cities by valuing the contribution water makes to economic growth and development, our quality of life and to the ecosystems of which cities are a part.

Participant Collaboration

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By sector

WA Regional Advisory Panel

• Department of Water

• Department of Housing

• Department of Planning

• Water Corporation

• Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority

• LandCorp

• Swan River Trust

• City of Armadale

• City of Subiaco

• City of Nedlands

• Department of Regional Development

• Essential Environmental

• Eastern Metropolitan Regional Council

• University of Western Australia

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CRC WSC Strategic Purpose

Water SensitiveCity

Water CycleCity

Waterway City

Drained City

SeweredCity

Water SupplyCity

The CRC for Water Sensitive Cities will:

• Develop the knowledge

• Synthesise the knowledge and develop the tools to meet industry needs

• Influence key players who shape and manage our cities

Water Sensitive Greater Perth

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Turning theory into reality…

Towards water sensitive cities

Current System

Water Sensitive City

Bringing stakeholders together to develop

strategic alignment for deliberately steering

WSC transitions

DEVELOPING SHARED VISIONS AND STRATEGIES

Briony Rogers

on-ground practices

• Benchmarking current city status

• Setting targets and tracking progress

• Modeling and prioritising management actions

• Fostering industry collaboration

Water Sensitive Cities Index

Benchmarking performance

Tracking progress

Prioritising actions

Fostering collaboration

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More tools to support transition…

Tranche 1 Research

Envisioning and transition planning methodology (A4.2)

WSC Index (D6.2)

Community engagement strategies (A2)

Tranche 2 Research (IRP1)

Framework for developing transition

strategies

Refined methodologies and tools

Knowledge on transition dynamics

Transitions Platform

Transition Dynamics Framework (A4.1)

City transition strategies

TAP Legacy

Forums to build

relationships

Tranche 2 Influence

Case studies

• Mix of scales and contexts• Opportunity for impact• Readiness of stakeholders• Willingness to contribute to research

Transitions Platform

• Purpose is to support the development of transitions guidance for

cities and provide a global knowledge hub for city-to-city learning

• Web-based software to make knowledge, methodologies and tools

accessible and tailored for industry application

• Comprised of three overarching tools, with interactive visualisation

and reporting functionality

WSC Index WSC MonitoringWSC Management

Actions

Tool to benchmark

and diagnose

water sensitive

performance

Tool to set targets,

develop

implementation plans,

monitor and evaluate

management actions

Database and tool to

prioritise and design

management actions

Water Sensitive Cities Transitions Platform