The webinar description and additional details on the expert presenters and panellists are available here.

Practical Engineering’s Grady Hillhouse provides an excellent summary of the current situation here:

Grady asks an intriguing question: If water storage reservoirs are optimally sized, shouldn’t they go dry every once in a while?

He also provides an example of a dam that was constructed and then never filled due to deviations from the historical trends that were applied in the design. How many similar mistakes are we currently making with our infrastructure designs when we ignore non-stationarity in the data?

Drought-related Resources:

• Colorado River Basin conditions from drought.gov

• University of Arizona’s Centre for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions (Kathy Jacobs, Director)

• CSIRO’s drought resilience website

• CSIRO’s managed aquifer recharge website

Greywater Resource

 Australia:

• Australian Government – Wastewater reuse
• Greywater Fact Sheet and introduction video from Gardening Australia

• New South Wales: Sydney Water Greywater Use
• Victoria: EPA Victoria – Household Greywater reuse
• South Australia: SA Water – Greywater
• Tasmania: What Is Greywater?
• Queensland: Greywater Installation Guidelines
• Queensland: Greywater use in the home
• New South Wales: NSW Health Domestic Greywater Reuse
• Western Australia: Water Corporation’s Greywater Guide
• Western Australia: Code of Practice for the Reuse of Greywater in Western Australia

United States:

• Use of Greywater in Urban Landscapes in California
• Greywater Recycling in Santa Clara County: A Quantitative Study and Financial Analysis
  University of California at Berkeley Masters Project, K. Price, 1996

• Rewater Systems website

International:

• World Health Organization Overview of Greywater Management
• World Health Organization Guidelines for the safe use of greywater

Related Australian Water School webinars: