Water authorities and businesses, working on new and existing developments, will be able to implement sustainable urban development from a local to a whole-of-catchment context, minimising costs and maximising environmental benefits. Planners will be able to use these tools to evaluate the costs and benefits of major infrastructure proposals.

Key outputs

• A product that enables evaluation of the water cycle performance of different cluster-scale urban system configurations across residential and non-residential land uses, in both greenfield and existing urban cases, with the latter including renewal, redevelopment and retrofit.
• A product that assists analysis of behaviour of regional-scale stormwater, water supply and wastewater networks over tens of years, to assist with the evaluation, optimisation and planning of alternative urban water management solutions.