UNSW Drought Resilience Forum
The Mulloon Institute’s CEO Carolyn Hall attended the UNSW Water Research Centre’s NSW Drought Resilience Forum on 10 February 2020 where a variety of researchers, industry and government representatives and community stakeholders came together to discuss our current water challenges and to explore a range of solutions. Much interest was shown by participants in the MCLRP as a catchment scale landscape rehydration project to at this event.
Discussion groups followed each panel with participants breaking off into teams to brainstorm and generate solutions for the water challenge that interested them the most. One of these sessions was called Rehydrating the Land which Carolyn attended.
“Today was important for people across the water industry space to share their ideas and concerns, but it’s also important for them to hear water management success stories like ours,” Carolyn said.
“We’re very passionate about our work and have significant grassroots interest from farmers. If the NSW Government is serious about drought resilience, then they need to listen to communities, farmers, and take landscape rehydration seriously, as part of the mix of the solutions.”
Read more about the Forum:
https://www.engineering.unsw.edu.au/news/building-drought-resilience-in-nsw