CRCWSC Researchers release Conceptualising Urban Water Regulation report

The CRC for Water Sensitive Cities (CRCWSC) project on better regulatory frameworks for water sensitive cities (Project A3.2) is focused on assessing barriers to the adoption of new urban water technologies and alternative water sources arising out of current regulatory and risk regimes. The overall outcome of this project will be to provide principles and methods for aligning legislative, administrative, regulatory and institutional arrangements with the goal of water sensitive cities and reducing institutional and practice barriers to innovation in water sensitive urban design. The project has a particular focus on the regulatory regimes of Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland.

This report, Conceptualising Urban Water Regulation – The Melbourne System, is the second report of this project. It was undertaken by Monash University and presents a preliminary conceptual model and issues paper. It also maps current regulatory frameworks that impact on urban water management, with a particular focus on the Melbourne metropolitan area. It provides one of the crucial foundations on which the remainder of the project is to be built. Future work will use the conceptual framework developed in this report as the basis for a comparative analysis of the regulatory regimes surrounding urban water management across Victoria, Western Australia and Queensland.

View the report here: Conceptualising Urban Water Regulation – The Melbourne System