• The vital importance of meeting the water needs of future populations today
• Initiatives for meeting water needs into the future
• The importance of conservation and water recycling
• How government can work together to ensure that this happens

• An overview of the New South Wales water plan
• What the water savings fund has achieved so far
• How to save billions of litres of water a year
• New South Wales: Where to next in water management

• An overview of water trading in the Murray Darling Basin
• New irrigation developments through cross border trading
• Cost-sharing arrangements between community, private sector and governments
• Increasing the economic value of water through trading

• The role of PPPs in investment in water infrastructure
• Government’s relationship in PPP development
• Impediments to private sector investment in water infrastructure

• The need for investment in water infrastructure
• Attracting private finance for water projects in Australia
• The role of Public Private Partnerships
• An overview of current PPP projects

Special motivational lunch presentation by Tony Mowbray, Fastest Australian solo world sailor.

Tony Mowbray has survived the worst Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race on record, circumnavigated the
planet on his own nonstop in Australian record time, and sailed to the windiest place on earth,
Commonwealth Bay in Antarctica. For him, it’s another adventure, another challenge. For us, it’s
about ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

• Water management and city planning
• Improving infrastructure co-ordination and asset management
• Taking a holistic approach to demand management strategies
• Guaranteeing key urban development outcomes

• Strategies for managing agricultural end-users
• Alternatives of direct sourcing of water supplies
• Pipelines and pipeline projects
• Managing water leakage within extended networks

This is an exciting, quick and non-pressurised way to meet fellow conference attendees and industry
peers in one 45-minute session. These brief meetings are the starting point for conversation and
networking throughout the conference. This is where long-lasting and profitable business
relationships begin.

• Meet.....move on.....meet.....move on.....meet
• Form long-lasting and profitable business relationships
• Exchange business cards with fellow conference attendees and industry peers
• The best 45 minutes networking session you’ve ever experienced

• What is cross-border water trading?
• The role of the River Murray in water trading between the eastern states
• An overview of the “exchange rate system”
• Putting a price on water – the cost of trading wat

• Does tagging really work?
• Adequately documenting water allocation
• Improving collaboration at federal, state and local government levels
• Understanding what you are entitled to
• Setting achievable goals for water use, conservation and demand management

• Delivering the benefits of desalination to Australia’s water business
• Infrastructure solutions to secure water supply
• Identifying projects that are working
• Managing the cost of desalination technology

•  Coping with a sustained water shortage
• Forecasts for water provision into the medium term
• Waste management solutions and conservation
• Overview of major projects in the industry

• Progress of the National Water Initiative
• Funding priorities for the years ahead
• Where to next for the National Water Initiative?

• Incorporating scarcity values into water prices
• Demand management implications for urban water
• Pricing and water recycling in the value chain

• Over view of Metrowater's integrated catchment program
• How catchments, wastewater, grey water and stormwater work in an integrated catchment management plan
• Managing urban water effectively
• Minimising impact to the environment with Integrated Catchment Management

• Overview of the use of membrane technology for water re-use
• Wessex Water plant descriptions
• Capital costs
• Costs of ownership
• Adopting a new technology
• Managing a new technology

• New leak detection methods
• New advanced pressure control
• New methods to reduce water loss

• Testing infrastructure security and preparing for infrastructure collapse
• Determining the impact of an unrelenting drought
• Best strategies in disaster recovery
• Can we guarantee water to all users in any eventuality?

• Is the current law an adequate means to ensure water sustainability?
• Review of the regulator’s responsibility for ensuring sustainability
• An overview of property rights in water infrastructure – what if the court intervenes
• If water rights are affected, what are the avenues of legal redress?

• Overview of WHO guidelines and IWA Bonn Charter
• How to effectively engage stakeholders
• Improving water quality within catchment areas
• Promoting the adoption of community catchment care practices

• Addressing the city’s water needs for future sustainability
• An overview of the on-going demand management strategies
• Using a full range of alternative water sources
• Educating community culture about water conservation