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Symposium Year	Theme	Author	Country	Title	Presentation
2019	Keynote Speaker	Leith Boully, Karlene Maywald	Australia	Basin Bookends: A River Community Perspective on the Road to Resilient Rivers	Download
2019	Keynote Speaker	Peter Batey	United Kingdom	After the inaugural RiverPrize: what happened to the Mersey Basin Campaign?	Download
2019	Keynote Speaker	Marcella D'Souza	India	Can Our Rivers Flow Again?	Download
2019	Keynote Speaker	Au Shion Yee	Philippines	Valuing our rivers: The story of the Yangtze River Economic Belt	Download
2019	Keynote Speaker	Mara Bún	Australia	Love change: how a Resilience Mindset can transform River Management	Download
2019	Communicating Science	Andrea Tatiana Vargas Elío	Bolivia	Experience with Projects in Rocha River (Cochabamba-Bolivia)	Download
2019	Managing Lakes and Wetlands	Deborah Nias	Australia	Watering country: Aboriginal partnerships with environmental water managers of the Murray - Darling Basin, Australia	Download
2019	Monitoring and Evaluation	Dennis Gannaway	Australia	Vine weeds and Native trees - preserving native vegetation to save money	Download
2019	Modelling and Monitoring Tools for River Resilience	Ryan Davis	Australia	Development Of A Resilience Focused Decision Support Tool For Managing Brisbane's Waterways - Utilising Multiple Data Sets To Inform Management Objectives For Urban Catchment Resilience
2019	River Regulation and Sustainable Dam Management	Joel Dalberger	Australia	Dammed If You Do, Damned If You Don’t - Valuation Of Environmental And Indigenous Heritage Conservation Vs. Flood Protection: The Case Of Warragamba Dam
2019	Building Resilience to Climate Change and Extreme Weather	Abi Killen, Richard Priman	Australia	Water security, climate change and natural disasters - Building community resilience - Bulk water supply governance for a resilient South East Queensland	Download
2019	Building Resilience to Climate Change and Extreme Weather	Steven Trewhella	United Kingdom	"Turned Out Nice Again", Postcard From The Future
2019	Integrated River Basin Management	Peter Kuras	Australia	Brisbane’s Waterway Asset Management Planning To Support Resilient Rivers
2019	Integrated River Basin Management	Ravindu Anjana Thuda Hewage, Medhisha Pasan Gunawardena	Sri Lanka	Soil Loss Estimation From The Upper Kelani River Catchment, Sri Lanka.
2019	Building Resilience to Climate Change and Extreme Weather	Mark Randall	Australia	Water security, climate change and flooding/wetlands - Space time image velocimetry - Measuring high flow events in Queensland	Download
2019	Valuing Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services	Ed Beling	Australia	Nutrient Offsetting In The Caboolture River - How Unitywater Is Planning To Maintain Environmental Values In A Catchment Facing Massive Population Growth	Download
2019	Modelling and Monitoring Tools for River Resilience	Tony McAlister	Australia	Laidley Creek Rain On Grid Modelling - The Application And Interfacing Of Advanced Calibrated Radar Rainfall And Distributed Rainfall Runoff Modelling Techniques To Provide Unique Insights Into Catchment And Flood Plain Behaviour.	Download
2019	Community Engagement and Stewardship	Emily Saeck	Australia	Loving Our Waterways Too Much? Monitoring Waterway Condition And Social Benefits In South East Queensland
2019	Valuing Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services	Petaia Mafuiele	Australia	Ecological Purification System in Samoa
2019	Modelling and Monitoring Tools for River Resilience	Tim Malthus	Australia	Integrating Citizen Science, Low Cost Optical Sensors And Satellite Data For Observations Of Water Quality And Algal Blooms
2019	Community Engagement and Stewardship	Johan Kaspers	Netherlands	Learnings From Celebrations And Festivals Of The River Waal
2019	Valuing Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services	Buyani Thomy	Australia	A rapid valuation of ecosystem services in the Ayeyarwady Basin. Done that. So what? Now what?	Download
2019	Modelling and Monitoring Tools for River Resilience	Nathaniel Parker	Australia	Drones - A More Accurate, Safe And Cost-effective Approach To Water Sampling
2019	River Regulation and Sustainable Dam Management	Stephen Burgess	Australia	10 Years After The Traveston Crossing Dam Decision: A Review.	Download
2019	Communicating Science	Anu Kumar	Australia	Communicating Hidden Emerging Water Quality Threats In Our Waterawys Via Score Card
2019	Community Engagement and Stewardship	Rachael Nasplezes	Australia	Communities Working Together To Build Resilience In Their Place
2019	Modelling and Monitoring Tools for River Resilience	Megan Powell	Australia	Mapping And Modelling For The Protection Of Waterways And Water Dependent Ecosystems In Urban Catchments.	Download
2019	Modify Submission - Implementing An Offset: More Than A Mass Balance Equation	Ross Bigwood	Australia	Modify Submission - Implementing An Offset: More Than A Mass Balance Equation	Download
2019	Modelling and Monitoring Tools for River Resilience	Arran Corbett	Australia	Application Of New Technologies For Timely, Reliable Water Data
2019	Transboundary Rivers and Sustainable Hydropower	Ivan Zavadsky	Austria	Sustainable Hydropower in the Danube River Basin	Download
2019	Communicating Science	Andy Lowes	Australia	Using Storytelling to Communicate the Benefits of Water for the Environment
2019	Integrated River Basin Management	Tony Weber	Australia	Managing River Basins in Changing Climates - Are our Tools up to the Challenge
2019	Community Engagement and Stewardship	Megan McLeod	Australia	Engaging Industry In Sustainable Water Management Through Water Stewardship	Download
2019	Valuing Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services	Tony Bigwood	Australia	Implementing An Offset: More Than A Mass Balance Equation	Download
2019	Modelling and Monitoring Tools for River Resilience	Morag Stewart	Australia	Optimising On-ground Investment For Source Water Protection In South East Queensland
2019	Modelling and Monitoring Tools for River Resilience	Michael Linde	Australia	An Innovative Approach To Sediment Modelling At The Port Of Brisbane	Download
2019	Transboundary Rivers and Sustainable Hydropower	Evgeny Simonov	China	Transboundary River Management In The Era Of The Belt And Road Initiative	Download
2019	River Regulation and Sustainable Dam Management	JoJo Joseph	Australia	South Dubbo Weir
2019	Communicating Science	Mohammed Rezwan	Bangladesh	Floating Educational Playground for River Conservation: An Inclusive Solution for Resilient Communities and Sustainable Development
2019	Integrated River Basin Management	Ana Terrazas	Australia	Considering Waterway Health Outcomes In Strategic Land Use Planning Decisions - Case Study For The Northern Beaches
2019	Community Engagement and Stewardship	Johan Kaspers	Netherlands	Organising Community Groups For Influencing Policymakers, Sharing Knowledge And Stimulating Ecotourism Along The River Waal	Download
2019	Valuing Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services	Jocelyn Dela-Cruz	Australia	Identifying High Value Waterways And Water Dependent Ecosystems In South Creek - Home To The Western Parkland City, In New South Wales Australia
2019	Modelling and Monitoring Tools for River Resilience	Eduardo, Jr. Bornilla	Philippines	Development Of A Dissolved Oxygen - Biochemical Oxygen Demand (do-bod) System Dynamics Model Of Pasig River, Philippines Using Stella	Download
2019	River Regulation and Sustainable Dam Management	Zhenzhen MA	China	Reservoir Optimal Operation For Sustaining River Natural Flow Regime: A Case Study For The Mainstream Of The Yellow River, China	Download
2019	Communicating Science	Marije ten Napel	Australia	Using Geospatial Tools to Tell a Story About Water Quality in the Great Barrier Reef Catchments
2019	Valuing Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services	Thanapon Piman	Thailand	Success Story In Mainstreaming Ecosystem Values Into The Action Plan In Myanmar
2019	Modelling and Monitoring Tools for River Resilience	Dabin Liu	China	Numerical Simulation Of Typhoon Influence On Marine Dynamic Elements In The Pearl River Estuary
2019	Transboundary Rivers and Sustainable Hydropower	Rashmi Shrestha	Nepal	Harnessing The Hydropower Boom In Achieving Sustainable Development Goals: Innovative Practices In Nepal
2019	River Regulation and Sustainable Dam Management	Chris Nielsen	Australia	River Regulation and Sustainable Dam Management - Resilient Dam Management	Download
2019	Communicating Science	Mara Wolkenhauer	New Zealand	Catchments Otago - Building Resilience Through Transparency
2019	Lake Simcoe	Robert Baldwin	Canada	From Adversaries to Partners! Building Resilient Communities with Public/Private Partnerships
2019	Lake Simcoe	Robert Baldwin	Canada	Offsetting Programs - Restoring the Lake Simcoe Watershed Through Growth and Building Better Communities!
2019	Governance, Leadership and Financial Mechanisms	Shawahiq Siddiqui	India	Marginalised River Basins of South Asia: A governance Challenge or the Need for Challenging the Un-Questioned Conventional Governance	Download
2019	Lake Simcoe	Mike Walters	Canada	Translating Science Into Action	Download
2019	Lake Simcoe	Mike Walters	Canada	Using Strategic Planning to Achieve Environmental Goals – Lessons Learned in the Lake Simcoe Watershed	Download
2019	Lake Simcoe	Mike Walters	Canada	Ten Years After Thiess – The Lake Simcoe Story	Download
2019	Integrated River Basin Management	Philip Smith	Australia	Incorporating Wider Catchment Management Principles into Local Flood Management Planning - The Ipswich Integrated Catchment Action Plan
2019	Integrated River Basin Management	Mary Matthews	Azerbaijan	Building Harmony through GEF International Waters	Download
2019	Governance, Leadership and Financial Mechanisms	Lillian Stevens	Australia	How To Pass The Pub Test: Strengthening Our Ability To Demonstrate The Socio-economic Benefits Of Resilient Rivers And Catchments	Download
2019	Governance, Leadership and Financial Mechanisms	Kim Heynen	Australia	Driving Behavioural Change To Encourage Water Compliance	Download
2019	Great Barrier Reef	Catherine Neelamraju	Australia	Assessing the Ecological Risk of Pesticide Mixtures	Download
2019	Great Barrier Reef	Lauren Dunstan	Australia	Finding the sweet spot - using a targeted social marketing approach for sugarcane farmers to achieve practice change and wetland health.	Download
2019	Environmental Flows	Marinda Avenant	South Africa	The Role of Fish in a Suite of Indicators for Assessing the Environmental Water Requirements of Non-Perennial Rivers: Case Studies from South Africa
2019	Environmental Flows	Wei Huang	China	Assessment of Environmental Flow in a Dam-Regulated River Reach Based on Quantitative Flow-Ecology Relationship
2019	Integrated River Basin Management	George Oliver De La Rama	Philippines	Multisectoral Approaches In River Restoration And Management: Case Of Asia Riverprize Champion Pasig River, Philippines
2019	Integrated River Basin Management	Jamie-Lee Hunt	Australia	Ecosystem Resilience And The Effects Of Degradation On Riparian Spider Community Structure And Carbon Flux Across The Aquatic-terrestrial Interface.	Download
2019	Governance, Leadership and Financial Mechanisms	Rajan Subedi	Nepal	Transboundary River Water Management Through Citizen Science Approach; A Case From Mahakali Basin
2019	Governance, Leadership and Financial Mechanisms	Christine Freak	Australia	Perceptions by Agricultural Water Users of Optimal Methodological Considerations for Socio- Economic Impact Assessment in the Murray- Darling Basin	Download
2019	Governance, Leadership and Financial Mechanisms	Barry Hart	Australia	Catalysing Change - A New National Water and Catchment Policy Centre
2019	Great Barrier Reef	Jamie Corfield	Australia	A New Urban Water Management Practice and Stewardship Framework	Download
2019	Environmental Flows	Paul Childs	Australia	Working With Recreational Fishers to Restore Native Fish Populations in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia.	Download
2019	Environmental Flows	Chunfeng Hao	China	Holistic Analysis of Instream Eco-Environmental Flow for the Weihe River in China	Download
2019	Asian River Restoration Network	Shaohua Hsu	Taiwan	Case Study of River Restoration in Taichung City_Hishuike River
2019	Integrated River Basin Management	Paul Maxwell	Australia	Evaluating the Success of Past Strategies: Why Looking to the Past is Critical for Future Catchment Resilience
2019	Integrated River Basin Management	Julie-Ann Malan	Australia	Offstream Watering Points For Cattle: Protecting Riparian Ecosystems And Improving Water Quality ?	Download
2019	Governance, Leadership and Financial Mechanisms	Sarah Choudhury	Australia	Supporting transformative change of urban water regimes: a systems analysis to identify barriers and interventions based on coproduced practitioner knowledge
2019	Governance, Leadership and Financial Mechanisms	Frederick Bouckaert	Australia	France, China, Brazil And Australia: Stakeholders And River Basin Governance.	Download
2019	Governance, Leadership and Financial Mechanisms	Tally Palmer	South Africa	Adaptive River Basin Management: A Capability Pathway Catalyses Rural Participatory Governance
2019	Environmental Flows	Mark Kennard	Australia	New Research To Support River Management In Northern Australia
2019	Environmental Flows	Gordon O'Brien	South Africa	River Connectivity and Fish Migrations for People and the Environment: Lessons Learnt From Regional Scale E-Flow Assessments in Africa
2019	Asian River Restoration Network	Mitsuru Abe	Japan	Community Development Integrating Riverfront Use In The City Of Okazaki Japan
2019	Asian River Restoration Network	Akira Wada	Japan	Capacity Building for River Management Through Community Based "Collaborative Nature Restoration" in Japan	Download
2019	Asian River Restoration Network	Nobuyuki Tsuchiya	Japan	Urban River Restoration From Devastating Water Pollution in Tokyo, Japan
2019	Asian River Restoration Network	Qinghui Zeng	China	The Influence of Cascade Hydropower Development on the Hydrodynamic Conditions Impacting the Reproductive Process of Fish with Semi-Buoyant Eggs	Download
2019	Lake Simcoe	Bill Thompson	Canada	Watershed Planning to Promote Implementation: 10 Years of Experience From the Lake Simcoe Watershed	Download
2019	Integrated River Basin Management	Nicole Ramilo	Australia	Integrated Catchment Management Planning for Moreton Bay Regional Council	Download
2019	Integrated River Basin Management	Claudia Irene Ortiz-Arrona	Mexico	Conservation And Management Of Riparian Zones In The Ayuquila-armeria River Basin, Western Mexico.	Download
2019	Governance, Leadership and Financial Mechanisms	Phillip Birtles	Australia	Delivering Liveable, Productive and Sustainable Cities Through Effective Urban Waterways Governance
2019	Governance, Leadership and Financial Mechanisms	Simon Pearsall	Australia	Creating Clear Leadership to Implement the Parramatta River Masterplan
2019	Great Barrier Reef	Ryan Turner	Australia	Anthropogenic and Natural Occurring Nitrate in the Tully River - Impacting the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon.
2019	Environmental Flows	Thomas Espinoza	Australia	Environmental Flows and Adaptive Management: A Case-Study of a Critically-Endangered Freshwater Turtle and a Regulated Impoundment	Download
2019	Environmental Flows	Daniel Penney	Australia	Constructing Catchment Scale Rainfall-Runoff Models for Low Flow Release Modelling in the Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia	Download
2019	Asian River Restoration Network	Sainan Wu	China	Research on Ecosystem Services of Chishui River Basin Based on Invest Model	Download
2019	Integrated River Basin Management	David Rodgers	Australia	Landscape Restoration Rebuilds Water Security In Ethiopia	Download
2019	Integrated River Basin Management	Joe Thompson	Australia	Hunter River Management Plan: Where Does It Go From Here?
2019	Governance, Leadership and Financial Mechanisms	Helena Howell	Australia	Queensland Government Investing in Practice Change to Support Natural Resource Management	Download
2019	Governance, Leadership and Financial Mechanisms	Shawn Darr	Australia	Improving Water Quality Outcomes	Download
2019	Governance, Leadership and Financial Mechanisms	David Rodgers	Australia	The Influence of Provincial Government on Water and Sanitation Development in the Solomon Islands
2019	Governance, Leadership and Financial Mechanisms	Huw Pohlner	Australia	WaterGuide - A Framework for Improving Resilient Water Resource Management in the Jordan Valley	Download
2019	Environmental Flows	Andrew Greenfield	Australia	Restoring Vegetation on the Hattah Lakes Floodplain by Delivering Water for the Environment	Download
2019	Managing Lakes and Wetlands	Andrew Greenfield	Australia	Restoring a Disconnected Floodplain in a Highly Regulated River System - The Hattah Lakes, Australia	Download
2019	Environmental Flows	David Weldrake	Australia	Increasing River Resilience Through Environmental Flow Protection: Remote Sensing for Compliance in the Northern Murray - Darling Basin.
2019	Asian River Restoration Network	Nobuyuki Tsuchiya	Japan	Urban River Restoration From Devastating Water Pollution in Tokyo, Japan
2019	Asian River Restoration Network	Jinyong Zhao	China	The Construction and Restoration Effect of Heituwa Wetland System on Yongding River in Beijing	Download
2019	Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals	Chris Dickens	South Africa	The SDGs And Environmental Flows	Download
2019	Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals	Anu Kumar	Australia	Roadmap For Achieving SDGs: Lessons Learnt From Baseline Pollution Assessment In Myanmar
2019	Policy and Legal Frameworks	Andrew O'Neil	Australia	Policy on the Run - What the Books Dont Teach You
2019	Applied Science for River Resilience	Evan Chua	Australia	The Influence of Riparian Vegetation on Water Quality in a Mixed Land Use River Basin in Central Queensland	Download
2019	Applied Science for River Resilience	Sally Boer	Australia	RESTOREing waterways- what should we do?	Download
2019	Building Resilience to Climate Change and Extreme Weather	Emma O'Neill	Australia	Climate change and water supply
2019	Rivers By Design	Misko Ivezich	Australia	The Management of the Fitzroy River, Central Queensland	Download
2019	Community Engagement and Stewardship	Carmina Rivera	Philippines	Measuring the Impact of the International RiverFoundation's Scholarships and Fellowships
2019	Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Heritage	Phoutthasinh Phimmachanh	Laos	River-Based Traditional Livelihood	Download
2019	Monitoring and Evaluation	Andy Markham	Australia	The First Five Minutes. The Importance of Timely Monitoring of Unexpected Physical Impacts to Rivers	Download
2019	Applied Science for River Resilience	Chuansheng Guo	China	Research Status and Trend of Qingshuigou Channel Harnessing Project in the Yellow River Estuary
2019	Applied Science for River Resilience	Vishnu Pandey	Nepal	Enhancing Resiliency of Water Resources Systems Through Knowledge Generation and Efficient Use	Download
2019	Building Resilience to Climate Change and Extreme Weather	Haihua Hu	China	Research On The Influence Of Flow-sediment Variation On Cross-section Configuration Change In Ningxia-inner Mongolia Reach Of The Yellow River	Download
2019	Rivers By Design	Whendee Young	Australia	Managed Aquifer Recharge to Support Ecological Restoration in the Katarapko Floodplain	Download
2019	Communicating Science	Glenn Browning	Australia	Meet the pollutants: Spreading the word about waterway pollution.
2019	Community Engagement and Stewardship	Jackline Muturi	Kenya	Water productivity and catchment management in the Olchoro sub-catchment of the Upper Mara River basin: an interrelationship
2019	Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Heritage	Nic Caviale Delzescaux	New Zealand	The Whangawehi Story	Download
2019	Managing Lakes and Wetlands	Meera Joyce	Australia	Murray-Darling Basin Native Fish Management and Recovery Strategy	Download
2019	Monitoring and Evaluation	Ian Ramsay	Australia	Effectiveness of Receiving Environment Monitoring Programs to Support Environmental Regulation in Queensland	Download
2019	Applied Science for River Resilience	Tim Marsden	Australia	Evaluation of Cone Fishways to Facilitate Passage of Small-Bodied Fish	Download
2019	Applied Science for River Resilience	Nicole Flint	Australia	A Framework for Selecting Fish Health Indicators for Ports and Estuaries in Northern Australia	Download
2019	Building Resilience to Climate Change and Extreme Weather	Lisa Walpole	Australia	NRM in dynamic systems. How can prioritisation of actions to protect and restore the GBR more effectively account for climate change and climate variability?	Download
2019	Building Resilience to Climate Change and Extreme Weather	Glen Dare	Australia	Coastal Hazard Adaptation on Moreton Island	Download
2019	Rivers By Design	Ian Pham	Australia	Unfolding Waterway Design - Site Exploration, Humanscale, Enhance	Download
2019	Communicating Science	Ian Gordon	Australia	Improving Community, Water Manager And Water User Access To Information	Download
2019	Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Heritage	Robyn Heckenberg	Australia	Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Heritage Supporting Ecosystems and Communities	Download
2019	Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals	Munkhzul Chimid-Ochir	Mongolia	Challenges and opportunities for achieving the drinking water goal of the Mongolian Sustainable Development Vision (MSDV) 2030
2019	Managing Lakes and Wetlands	Simon Hunter	Australia	Protecting Flood Connectivity in the Upper Namoi River Valley Floodplain to Enhance the Health and Resilience of Floodplain Wetlands and Riverine Ecosystems	Download
2019	Monitoring and Evaluation	Sharyn Rossrakesh	Australia	A Comprehensive Monitoring and Evaluation Plan for a Region-Wide 10 Year Healthy Waterways Strategy	Download
2019	Policy and Legal Frameworks	Rachel Scalongne	Australia	Overview Of The Compliance Framework In Queensland And Future Directions	Download
2019	Applied Science for River Resilience	Jim Best	United States	Understanding Sediment Flux in the Mekong River: Geomorphology, Tropical Cyclones, Sediment Mining and Implications for Delta Stability	Download
2019	Applied Science for River Resilience	Paul McEvoy	Australia	Twenty Years a South Australian	Download
2019	Building Resilience to Climate Change and Extreme Weather	Daniel Copelin	Australia	Local Floodplain Management Planning	Download
2019	Rivers By Design	George Oliver De La Rama	Philippines	Low Impact Development Strategies on Riverbanks for Climate Change Resiliency	Download
2019	Communicating Science	Rense Heath Kelsey	United States	The Lower Kafue River Basin Report Card	Download
2019	Community Engagement and Stewardship	Leonie Duncan	Australia	Understanding the Social Drivers for River Resilience: The Role of Behavioural Science in Enhancing Landholder Stewardship	Download
2019	Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Heritage	Melinda Kennedy	Australia	Ngubitj Murrup Wadawurrung Water	Download
2019	Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals	Chris Dickens	South Africa	Setting Quantitative National-level Targets for the Management of Natural Resources to Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals	Download
2019	Monitoring and Evaluation	Naomi Soustal	Australia	Safe Recreation in South East Queensland Waterways	Download
2019	Policy and Legal Frameworks	Bruce Lindsay	Australia	Special Purpose River Legislation: Higher Standards for Urban Design?	Download
2019	Applied Science for River Resilience	William Chirgwin	Australia	Operationalising the Australian Water Quality Guidelines in New South Wales, Australia	Download
2019	Applied Science for River Resilience	Wangshou Zhang	China	Nitrogen Transport and Retention in a Headwater Catchment with Dense Distributions of Lowland Ponds	Download
2019	Building Resilience to Climate Change and Extreme Weather	Graeme Milligan	Australia	Regional And Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Supporting Resilient Rivers	Download
2019	Rivers By Design	Kate Harriden	Australia	Designer Storm Water Drains: WSUD for In-Channel Modifications	Download
2019	Communicating Science	William Dennison	United States	Developing an Environmental Report Card for Western Lake Erie: The Most Polluted and Contentious Portion of the Iconic North American Great Lakes	Download
2019	Community Engagement and Stewardship	Maria Leny Felix	Philippines	Theatre Arts and the Rehabilitation of the Bikol River: A Study of Civil Society Advocacy Project in the Philippines	Download
2019	Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Heritage	Linda Te Aho	New Zealand	Indigenous Laws and Values for Resilient Rivers	Download
2018	Keynote Speakers	Prof Rebekah Brown	Australia	Enabling an Institutional Ecosystem of Effort to Improve Human and Environmental Health in Urban Informal Settlements
2018	Keynote Speakers	Wouter T. Lincklaen Arriëns	Singapore	Starting with Transformation: How Leaders Take a Personal Approach.	Download
2018	Keynote Speakers	Prof William Dennison	United States	Creating and Communicating Environmental Intelligence	Download
2018	Keynote Speakers	Prof. Dr. Ir. Khin Ni Ni Thein	Myanmar	A Case Study of the Ayeyarwady River
2018	Integrated river basin management	Phillip Jordan	Australia	Quantifying uncertainty in nutrient load exports from diffuse landuses to waterways and estuaries.	Download
2018	Integrated river basin management	Beth Salt	Australia	Dealing with constraints on the implementation of integrated and innovative river management	Download
2018	Integrated river basin management	Misko Ivezich	Australia	Protecting river catchments and the Great Barrier Reef following flood events	Download
2018	Integrated river basin management	Nick Edgar	New Zealand	Lessons from the Aorere River: the New Zealand Riverprize Winner.	Download
2018	Integrated river basin management	Lingaraju Yale	India	River Rejuvenation: An innovative methodology of planning and implementation as applied in Kumudvathi river-basin, Bengaluru Rural, India.	Download
2018	Integrated river basin management	Danielle Andlemac & Bob Hampson	Australia	An innovative approach to collaborative natural resource management in the Bremer River catchment	Download
2018	Murray Darling Basin (Australia)	Carl Binning	Australia	The Murray-Darling Basin Plan – implementation update	Download
2018	Murray Darling Basin (Australia)	Dr. Emma Carmody	Australia	The ethics of water management: the role of independent experts and civil society in upholding – and reforming – the law	Download
2018	Murray Darling Basin (Australia)	Ashmita Sengupta	Australia	Looking forward: Exploring innovation in the Murray-Darling Basin	Download
2018	Murray Darling Basin (Australia)	Tanya Doody	Australia	Novel evapotranspiration model to inform future management using past riparian vegetation trends.	Download
2018	Murray Darling Basin (Australia)	Danial Stratford	Australia	What can predictive eco-hydrology tell us to help inform water management in the Basin?	Download
2018	Engagement, Inclusiveness and Ethics	Marie Aislinn Cabriole	Philippines	Building Bridges with the Pasig River community	Download
2018	Engagement, Inclusiveness and Ethics	Hari Gurung	Nepal	Inclusive engagement of vulnerable river basin communities in riverbed farming improves economic leadership.	Download
2018	Engagement, Inclusiveness and Ethics	Kangkanika Neog	India	A framework for water resource planning through community engagement: A case of inter-state boundary conflict in India	Download
2018	Engagement, Inclusiveness and Ethics	Socheata Sim	Cambodia	Inclusive Civil Society Participation in Water Governance in the Mekong	Download
2018	Engagement, Inclusiveness and Ethics	Sean Phillipson	Australia	Delivering priorities for the Gippsland lakes through partnerships.	Download
2018	Engagement, Inclusiveness and Ethics	Jeff Loux	United States	The Truckee River Basin: Collaboration out of Necessity.	Download
2018	Engagement, Inclusiveness and Ethics	Daniela Lehner	Chile	Participatory research of public space in the fluvial landscape of the city of Valdivia, Chile.	Download
2018	Engagement, Inclusiveness and Ethics	Sylvester P. Harris	Liberia	Enhancing integrated river management for sustainable communities development, long-term sustainability, healthy river ecosystem, capacity building.	Download
2018	Engagement, Inclusiveness and Ethics	Farah Kabir	Bangladseh	Water and Environmental Management Crisis in Rohingya Camps	Download
2018	Rivers by Design	Jonathan Ho	Australia	Corridors of concrete: where to invest in naturalising stormwater channels	Download
2018	Rivers by Design	Gary Williams	New Zealand	River Corridor & Natural Character Management of Rivers in New Zealand	Download
2018	Rivers by Design	Amit Parashar	Australia	Basin Futures – A Frugal Innovation for Basin Scale Water Resource Assessments	Download
2018	Rivers by Design	Andrew O’Neill	Australia	From an objective failure to a framework for evidence-based stormwater policy	Download
2018	Rivers by Design	Rohan Lucas	Australia	Landholders driving change: designing cost-effective approaches to remediate large-scale dispersive erosion gully features on grazing lands	Download
2018	Environmental and Cultural Flows	Angela Arthington	Australia	The Brisbane Declaration and Global Action Agenda on Environmental Flows	Download
2018	Environmental and Cultural Flows	Gail Tipa	New Zealand	Enabling an Indigenous community to inform environmental flow setting processes: Results from Cultural Flow Preference Studies undertaken in New Zealand.	Download
2018	Environmental and Cultural Flows	Mona Liddy & Michael Douglas	Australia	Talking together, working together, walking together.	Download
2018	Environmental and Cultural Flows	Paula Hanasz	Australia	Do environmental flows in Australia have a public relations problem?	Download
2018	Environmental and Cultural Flows	Will Mooney	Australia	he path to water sovereignty – Cultural Flows in action	Download
2018	River Science	Heather McGinness	Australia	Waterbird recruitment and movements: New information for water and wetland managers.	Download
2018	River Science	Jakob Fries	Australia	Measuring productivity of Australian tropical estuaries using standing stock analysis	Download
2018	River Science	Jing Yin	China	An analysis of ecological effects on intake areas along the way of large cross-basin water transfer projects	Download
2018	River Science	Md. Manzoorul Kibria	Bangladesh	Spatio-Temporal Variation of Zooplankton Community of the Natural Carps Spawning Ground of Halda River with Relation to Physico-Chemical Factors.	Download
2018	Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Values	Gail Tipa	New Zealand	Using vulnerability assessments to design a “big river” flow studies in catchments involving multiple indigenous groups.	Download
2018	Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Values	Ilisapeci Lyons	Australia	Water resource development as opportunities to strengthen co-existence: Learnings from Indigenous Traditional Owners of the Mitchell Catchment, Queensland	Download
2018	Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Values	Rene Woods	Australia	Gayini Nimmie-Caira: large-scale cultural and ecological restoration in NSW, Australia.	Download
2018	David Knights	David Knights	Australia	Designing A Bird Airport –An innovative ecosystem for migratory shorebirds under threat from habitat loss.	Download
2018	Wetlands	Simon Hunter	Australia	Rigorous science helps develop Barwon-Darling Valley Floodplain Management Plan to maintain flood connectivity to important wetlands and riverine ecosystems.	Download
2018	Wetlands	Rachael Thomas	Australia	Monitoring inundation extents from space: evaluating outcomes of environmental watering in floodplain wetlands.	Download
2018	Wetlands	Joanna Taylor	Australia	Using technology and rural floodplain management to help future-proof flood-dependent wetlands	Download
2018	Water for Industry and Agriculture	Meg Strang & Peter Verwey	Australia	EMBRACING INNOVATION PROVES A WIN-WIN-WIN FOR RIVERS, IRRIGATORS & COMMUNITIES	Download
2018	Water for Industry and Agriculture	Kate Dowsley	Australia	Transforming agriculture in the Pilbara through river and groundwater-fed irrigation.	Download
2018	Water for Industry and Agriculture	Venkataramana Sridhar	United States	Water-Energy-Food Nexus Assessment in the Lower Mekong Basin	Download
2018	Water for Industry and Agriculture	Louise Whiting	Australia	Minimizing the negative impacts of irrigation on aquatic ecosystems	Download
2018	Sustainable Hydropower	Phan Pham Tuan	Vietnam	Sustainable hydropower development and governance in the context of transboundary water resources management: A perspective from the Mekong River Commission.	Download
2018	Sustainable Hydropower	Rashmi Shresth	Nepal	Cultural Flow and Hydropower Development: Case of conflict in the Bhilangana River Basin, Uttarakhand, India.	Download
2018	Sustainable Hydropower	Chunna Liu	China	AN EVALUATION SYSTEM OF RIVER BASIN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT	Download
2018	Sustainable Hydropower	Sainan Wu	China	Research on key technologies and applications of alternative habitats protection in tributary.	Download
2018	Water Sensitive Cities	Fiona Chandler	Australia	Creating Water Sensitive River Cities	Download
2018	Water Sensitive Cities	Tony Weber	Australia	Swimming in Urban Waterways – aspirations, expectations and the bite of reality.	Download
2018	Water Sensitive Cities	Peter Morison	Australia	The future of urban rivers in the burgeoning megacities of Australia.	Download
2018	Water Sensitive Cities	Ben Longstaff	Canada	Phosphorus offsetting: How new urban growth can support phosphorus reduction and innovative stormwater management.	Download
2018	Technology Innovation in Restoration and Monitoring	Nantale Nsibirwa	South Africa	Mapping of Diffuse Pollution Risk for Prioritisation of Ecological Infrastructure Protection	Download
2018	Technology Innovation in Restoration and Monitoring	Julie Francis	Australia	Chain of Ponds – Moonee Ponds Catchment Collaboration
2018	Technology Innovation in Restoration and Monitoring	José Antonio Fernández López-Lavalle	Peru	Contributing on the development of an Integrated Water Management System, in the peasant community of San Pedro de Casta, Lima Peru.	Download
2018	Technology Innovation in Restoration and Monitoring	Nathaniel Parker	Australia	Applying drone tech to river restoration, design monitoring and reporting	Download
2018	Technology Innovation in Restoration and Monitoring	Brian Jackson	Australia	An innovative water control room for the Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority – Turning data into information and knowledge	Download
2018	Technology Innovation in Restoration and Monitoring	Klaus Joehnk	Australia	Scaling up water quality simulations in space and time	Download
2018	Technology Innovation in Restoration and Monitoring	Nathan Johnston	Australia	Streamlining and automating environmental Reporting	Download
2018	Technology Innovation in Restoration and Monitoring	Ben Hammill	Australia	Cheaper by choice: The hunt for affordable nitrogen sensors	Download
2018	Technology Innovation in Restoration and Monitoring	Daryl Albertson	Australia	The Gingham Watercourse – How a biplane aided restoration.	Download
2018	Technology Innovation in Restoration and Monitoring	Yi Lu	Australia	Utilising Remote Sensing Techniques to Identify Irrigated Crop Areas and Off River Storages	Download
2018	Technology Innovation in Restoration and Monitoring	David Reid	Australia	Development of metrics and an electronic platform to allow rapid visual assessment of urban streams for multiple values	Download
2018	Water Security, Climate Resilience and Flooding	Ouswatta Perera	Australia	Brisbane Citywide Overland Flow Path Modelling and Flood Risk Mapping	Download
2018	Water Security, Climate Resilience and Flooding	Joe Casabella	Australia	The Flood Resilient Homes Program – empowering residents to live through floods	Download
2018	Water Security, Climate Resilience and Flooding	Seth Westra	Australia	A systems approach for stress-testing and maximising the resilience of climate-sensitive systems	Download
2018	Water Security, Climate Resilience and Flooding	Fatemeh Mekanik	Australia	Upgrading the seasonal streamflow forecast service for Australia: transition from seasonal to multi-month forecasts.	Download
2018		Andrew Kelly	Australia	he Yarra River Protection Act (Willip-gin Birrarung murron) – first steps in implementing a bold act.	Download
2018	Governance, International Relations and Leadership	Katie O’Bryan	Australia	The Independent Voice of the River – A Comparison between the Yarra River’s Birrarung Council and the Human Face of the Whanganui River, Te Pou Tupa.	Download
2018	Governance, International Relations and Leadership	Zhang Shuang	China	River Governor System: Model and effect of the water environment administration system in China	Download
2018	Governance, International Relations and Leadership	Thomas Gyedu-Ababio	South Africa	WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN AN INTERNATIONAL BASIN: INCO-MAPUTO	Download
2018	Communicating Science	Brian Jackson	Australia	AN INNOVATIVE, CLOUD BASED, PROPERTY FLOOD REPORTING PORTAL FOR GREATER SHEPPARTON CITY AND GOULBURN BROKEN CMA	Download
2018	Communicating Science	Gail Tipa	New Zealand	Using fuzzy cognitive maps to visualize and utilize indigenous knowledge and science in freshwater management.	Download
2018	Communicating Science	Catherine Blancard	United States	Augmented Reality Keeps Rivers Free-Flowing	Download
2018	Communicating Science	Madeleine Greenlee	Australia	The Effectiveness of Report Cards in influencing decision making and behaviour change: A comparative study of SEQ and the GBR	Download
2018	Communicating Science	Nicole Flint	Australia	Effective Biological Indicators for River Health Report Cards	Download
2018	Science to Policy	Gregor Macfarlane	Australia	Predicting and regulating boat-generated waves within rivers and sheltered waterways	Download
2018	Science to Policy	Suparana Katyaini	India	Science-Policy interface: Significance of Women’s Indigenous Knowledge Systems for Adaptation to Floods in Brahmaputra River.	Download
2018	Science to Policy	Marc Goichot	Asia	Undermining the world’s rivers: global review of the impacts of sand mining and potential solutions.	Download
2018	Science to Policy	Carmel Pollino	Australia	A synthesis of knowledge to support the assessment of impacts of water resource development to environmental assets in northern Australia.	Download
2017	Public Health	Claire Robinson	United States	Los Angeles, USA – A Metro “Tale of Two Rivers: the Los Angeles & San Gabriel Rivers Emerald Necklace”.	Download
2017	Public Health	Rhys Anderson	Australia	Urban swimmability: A driver for sustainable and liveable cities.	Download
2017	Water Security, Climate Change and Natural Disasters	Paul Sayers	United Kingdom	Assessing future flood risk and opportunities for adaptation at UK scale.	Download
2017	Water Security, Climate Change and Natural Disasters	Yinsheng Zhang	China	Impacts of snow/glacier variability over the hydrologic regimes in upper Indus River Basin.	Download
2017	Water Security, Climate Change and Natural Disasters	Michael Wrathall	Australia	Drought security assessments of regulated rivers in NSW.	Download
2017	Water Security, Climate Change and Natural Disasters	Lee Okjeong	South Korea	Development of mega-storm generating tool.	Download
2017	Water Security, Climate Change and Natural Disasters	Priyantha Jayakody	Australia	River transmission loss forecast using multiple variables.	Download
2017	Water Security, Climate Change and Natural Disasters	Greg McMahon	Australia	Is climate change responsible for the rising cost of natural disasters?	Download
2017	Water Security, Climate Change and Natural Disasters	Wade Hadwen	Australia	It all comes out in the WaSH – the need for integrated water resource management to deliver climate-resilient and sustainable water and sanitation services.	Download
2017	Technology and Innovation and Asset Management	Oliver Maennicke	Australia	Relaunching the WWF Water Risk Filter – Using spatial water risk assessment to inform water stewardship strategy on corporate-, site and basin level.	Download
2017	Technology and Innovation and Asset Management	Jacques van Delft	South Africa	Bloemwater Conduit Hydropower Plant.	Download
2017	Technology and Innovation and Asset Management	Matthew Brooks	Australia	Creating Stream gauging station catchment areas and routing networks using the Geofabric.	Download
2017	Technology and Innovation and Asset Management	Brian Jackson	Australia	HydroNET and Real Time Radar Rainfall Data for improved hydrology, flood forecasting and flood warning.	Download
2017	Sustainable Development Goals	Pema Dorji	Bhutan	Comparative Study of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) in Bhutan with best practices elsewhere.	Download
2017	Sustainable Development Goals	Amanda Morgan	Australia	Why knowledge and learning are essential to achieving SDG6.	Download
2017	Social and Cultural Flows, and E-flows	Caitlin Davis	Australia	Making every drop count.	Download
2017	Social and Cultural Flows, and E-flows	Katie Burns	Australia	Werribee River: case study of an integrated approach to rural, urban and environmental water priorities.	Download
2017	Social and Cultural Flows, and E-flows	Rene Woods	Australia	Understanding cultural flows: a coordinated research effort in pursuit of Aboriginal water rights.	Download
2017	Social and Cultural Flows, and E-flows	Jane Walker	Australia	Towards Cultural Flows – Glenelg River Aboriginal Water Values.	Download
2017	Social and Cultural Flows, and E-flows	Joel Boyd	Australia	River Yarns – a pilot project partnership for cultural flows in the Wimmera	Download
2017	Social and Cultural Flows, and E-flows	Jamie Woods	Australia	Our Water Our Way	Download
2017	Social and Cultural Flows, and E-flows	Will Mooney	Australia	‘This is our inherent right’. Reflecting on 10 years of advocacy for water justice: achievements, challenges and future directions.	Download
2017	Social and Cultural Dimensions of E-flows	Dr Virginia Marshall	Australia	Overturning aqua nullius	Download
2017	Social and Cultural Dimensions of E-flows	Lauren Zielinski	United States	Incorporating social indicators in the monitoring and evaluation of environmental flows.	Download
2017	Social and Cultural Dimensions of E-flows	James Peters	Australia	Incorporating Aboriginal Cultural Perspectives into Water Allocation Planning and Environmental Flow Delivery.	Download
2017	Social and Cultural Dimensions of E-flows	Erin O’Donnell	Australia	Environmental Flows Policies: A New Framework for Implementation.	Download
2017	Social and Cultural Dimensions of E-flows	Eloise Kendy	United States	The social dimensions of Colorado river restoration: Insights for water policy at the U.S.-México border.	Download
2017	Social and Cultural Dimensions of E-flows	Sarah Baines	Canada	Indigenous Flows in the Lower Athabasca River, Canada: A bridging dialogue to meaningfully impact water policy innovation.	Download
2017	RiverFoundation Twinning	Daivd Winfield	Australia	River Basin Planning – Drawing on the Australian Experience to Inform Basin Planning in India.	Download
2017	RiverFoundation Twinning	Brian Kemp	Canada	Twinning Success – Working Towards An Integrated Watershed Management Plan.	Download
2017	RiverFoundation Twinning	Olita Ogonjo	Kenya	Still Twinning – The Tweed Kenya Mentoring Program	Download
2017	RiverFoundation Twinning	Tara Davis	United States	Opportunities in Cross-Cultural Exchanges: Willamette River, USA and Rio Laja, Mexico.	Download
2017	RiverFoundation Twinning	Lucy Cameron & Siwan Lovett	Australia	An ear to listen and time to ponder: experiences and insights from the Victorian Waterway Management Twinning Program.	Download
2017	Policy, Governance and Leadership	Robert Baldwin	Canada	Creating a public-private relationship, to achieve maximum benefits in the Lake Simcoe watershed.	Download
2017	Policy, Governance and Leadership	Chathura Sanjeewa	Sri Lanka	Capacity building for Young Water Professionals (YWP): Experience sharing from Sri Lanka	Download
2017	Policy, Governance and Leadership	Frederick Bouckaert	Australia	The role of River Basin Organisations in sustainable management of river basins: case studies from around the world.	Download
2017	Policy, Governance and Leadership	Paula Hanasz	Australia	International actors and transboundary water governance; the case of the Ganges-Brahmaputra problemshed.	Download
2017	Integrated river basin management	Ester Galende Sanchez	Ireland	Integrating urban-rural communities through stakeholder analysis to implement Mechanisms for Rewarding Hydrological Ecosystem Services: Case Study of Lima, Peru.	Download
2017	Integrated river basin management	Lyndal Hasselman	Australia	Watering the environment: Whose job is it anyway?	Download
2017	Integrated river basin management	Erin O’Donnell	Australia	Environmental Water Managers: What Happens When the Environment has Legal Rights?	Download
2017	Integrated river basin management	Keri Neilson	New Zealand	Waikato and Waipa River Restoration Strategy – an action plan for the restoration of New Zealand’s longest river.	Download
2017	Integrated river basin management	J.M. Chandramali Jayawardana	Sri Lanka	Effect of catchment disturbance on river health in two agricultural catchment in Sri Lanka.	Download
2017	Integrated river basin management	Richard Cresswell	Australia	Integrated agricultural and water modelling to guide Healthy Rivers in New Zealand.	Download
2017	Integrated river basin management	Reece Hill	New Zealand	Prioritising soil conservation and water quality issues for the Waikato River and Waipa River Restoration Strategy, New Zealand.	Download
2017	Integrated river basin management	Ying Tian	China	New approaches to river basin management for sustainable development in China.	Download
2017	Integrated river basin management	Kate Fitzpatrick	United States	Basin Planning in the Upper Deschutes River: Rebalancing water use in a changing climate.	Download
2017	Integrated river basin management	Kane Travis	Australia	Integrated solutions takes an integrated team – reshaping catchment and river health investment and action in the Wet Tropics.
2017	Integrated river basin management	Stephen Packer	Australia	Writing a Water Quality Improvement Plan for the Mount Lofty Ranges – How to get improvement when there is no perceived problem?	Download
2017	Integrated river basin management	Simon Hunter	Australia	Valley-wide floodplain management plans in NSW’s northern Murray-Darling Basin: protecting and maintaining floodplain and wetland connectivity	Download
2017	Integrated river basin management	Brian Jackson	Australia	HydroNET and Real Time Radar Rainfall Data for improved hydrology, flood forecasting and flood warning.	Download
2017	Integrated river basin management	Tamara Boyd	Australia	Tracking and reporting the long-term social and cultural benefits of waterway investment.	Download
2017	Integrated river basin management	Gregorio Garcia	Philippines	Convergence: The key to successful river restoration and management (case of the Pasig River, Philoppines).	Download
2017	Integrated river basin management	Nyein Thandar Ko	Netherlands	Changes in macroinvertebrates assemblages in regulated rivers in Myanmar: Macroinvertebrate as an indicator to study the potential impact of dams.	Download
2017	Integrated river basin management	Kimberly Schonek	United States	Verde River Flow and Habitat Restoration Initiative – Colorado River Program.	Download
2017	Integrated river basin management	Jim Wilcox	United States	Restoring Ecosystem Services in the Sierra Nevada, California.	Download
2017	Integrated river basin management	Simon Williams	Australia	The Snowy River flows again: Ecological process the basis for flow based river rehabilitation in the Snowy River.	Download
2017	Inclusiveness	Kaye Cavanagh	Australia	Women in Water – real stories about the unique challenges for women in advancing through leadership positions.	Download
2017	Inclusiveness	Melita Grant	Australia	What does socially inclusive Integrated Water Resources Management look like?	Download
2017	Inclusiveness	Paul Sayers	United Kingdom	Exploring social justice in UK flood risk management: Present and future.	Download
2017	Inclusiveness	Niken Nur Widyakusuma	Indonesia	Women in river school: Women informal education for sustainable river development.	Download
2017	Eco-hydrology and Monitoring	Prafulkumar V Timbadiya	India	Assessment of Environmental Flows for the Tapi River basin, India.	Download
2017	Eco-hydrology and Monitoring	Darren Ryder	Australia	Food web responses to hydrologic regimes in floodplain rivers.	Download
2017	Eco-hydrology and Monitoring	Heather McGinness	Australia	Waterbird recruitment and movement: Responses to flooding, stressors and threats.	Download
2017	Eco-hydrology and Monitoring	John Koehn	Australia	How do we manage a long-lived, highly migratory, flow-responding fish at a basin scale?	Download
2017	Eco-hydrology and Monitoring	Phil Slessar	Australia	Flows, habitat, connectivity and cooperation: recovering native fish in northern Victoria.	Download
2017	Eco-hydrology and Monitoring	Paula D’Santos	Australia	Let it Flow – how environmental water can provide native fish benefits.	Download
2017	Eco-hydrology and Monitoring	Janice Kerr	Australia	Stable low-flow spawning fish habitat assessments: Calculating flow thresholds to inform the Environmental Assessment of state Water Plans (Qld).	Download
2017	Eco-hydrology and Monitoring	Amy Russell	Australia	Making a big difference for a little fish (Murray hardyhead).	Download
2017	Eco-hydrology and Monitoring	Gordon O’Brien	South Africa	Framework for regional evaluations of E-flows in the Nile Basin.	Download
2019	Environmental Flows to Enhance River Resilience	Gordon O’Brien	South Africa	River Connectivity and Fish Migrations for People and the Environment: Lessons Learnt From Regional Scale E-Flow Assessments in Africa
2017	Eco-hydrology and Monitoring	Lauren Zielinski	United States	Creating an integrated monitoring and evaluation system which informs adaptive management of environmental flows	Download
2017	E-flows Restoration and Implementation	Pia Weber	Chile	Legal Framework and Policy Tools to Protect Free-Flowing Rivers.	Download
2017	E-flows Restoration and Implementation	Natasha Bellis	United States	The Evolution of Environmental Flows on Whychus Creek.	Download
2017	E-flows Restoration and Implementation	Genevieve Hubert	United States	Ground-water Mitigation Banking; a Tool for Environmental Flow Restoration in the Deschutes Basin.	Download
2017	E-flows Restoration and Implementation	Jeff Opperman	United States	Hydropower by Design: system-scale solutions for sustainable energy, river conservation and environmental flows.	Download
2017	E-flows Restoration and Implementation	Avril Horne	Australia	Environmental water allocation mechanisms: Release rules or active and variable management.	Download
2017	Community Engagement and Leadership	Shelley Scoullar	Australia	Achieving Multiple Outcomes with Local Knowledge.	Download
2017	Community Engagement and Leadership	Nuki Nicholson	New Zealand	Sharing Traditional Indigenous Knowledge of the Waikato River within the Te Arawa River Iwi Trust (TARIT) tribal area of Aotearoa (New Zealand).	Download
2017	Community Engagement and Leadership	Anaru Begbie	New Zealand	Collaboration to build capacity, insight and desired water futures.	Download
2017	Community Engagement and Leadership	Leonie Woodham	Australia	Our Water Ways	Download
2017	Community Engagement and Leadership	Natalie Stalenberg	Australia	When the river runs high: two case studies illustrating how an environmental watering program responds to a high river.	Download
2017	Community Engagement and Leadership	Marisa Hossick	United States	Environmental flow restoration, a compelling story. Keep it simple.	Download
2017	Community Engagement and Leadership	Paul Hackney	Australia	Returning Swimming to Lake Parramatta – a 72 year journey.	Download
2017	Community Engagement and Leadership	Mick Callan	Australia	Environment & Waterways Alliance: a model of engagment.	Download
2017	Community Engagement and Leadership	Astria Nugrahany	Indonesia	Community Engagement in Watershed and River Basin Conservation Practices in Jasa Tirta I Public Corporation (PJT I).	Download
2017	Community Engagement and Leadership	Johan Kaspers	Netherlands	Experience The River Waal.	Download
2017	Community Engagement and Leadership	Andrew Kelly	Australia	The Yarra Riverkeeper, Yarra River Protection Act and Birrarung Council.	Download
2017	Community Engagement and Leadership	Prof Dr Suratman M.sc.	Indonesia	Volunteer’s Role of River Restoration Movement in Klaten Regency, Java, Indonesia	Download
2017	E-flows in the Murray Darling and Australia	Suzanne Witteveen	Australia	Victoria’s state framework for environmental water outcomes.	Download
2017	E-flows in the Murray Darling and Australia	Simon Fane	Australia	Assessing the impacts on supply; optimisation modelling, economic analysis and community engagement to support a decision for new environmental flows in Sydney.	Download
2017	E-flows in the Murray Darling and Australia	Helen Keenan	Australia	Developing a new environmental flow rule for Warragamba Dam: application of flow, ecological and economic modelling in the 2017 Metropolitan Water Plan.	Download
2017	E-flows in the Murray Darling and Australia	Anne Jensen	Australia	Where have all the flowers gone?	Download
2017	E-flows in the Murray Darling and Australia	Natalie Stalenberg	Australia	When the river runs high: two case studies illustrating how an environmental watering program responds to a high river.	Download
2017	E-flows in the Murray Darling and Australia	Paul Frazier	Australia	Monitoring the outcomes of environmental watering: Long-term intervention monitoring in the Gwydir River.	Download
2017	E-flows in the Murray Darling and Australia	Ingrid Takken	Australia	Modelling environmental water in Source River System models: The River Murray System.	Download
2017	Keynote Speakers	Prof N LeRoy Poff	United States	Environmental Flows: A Framework to Achieve Social-Ecological Sustainability in a Changing World	Download
2017	Keynote Speakers	Dr Eloise Kendy	United States	Just Add Water: Historic Return of the Colorado River to its Delta, United States and México	Download
2017	Keynote Speakers	David Papps	Australia		Download
2017	Keynote Speakers	Gerrard Albert	New Zealand	Tupua Te Kawa – The journey to return the Whanganui River to the Whanganui River.	Download
2017	Keynote Speakers	Dr. Anne Poelina	Australia	Guardians of the Mardoowarra (Fitzroy River).
2017	Keynote Speakers	Dr. Bill Young	United States	Water Security: Getting to Solutions for People, Economies and the Environment.
2017	Biodiversity conservation	Mary Bonet	Australia	‘Corridors of Effort’- Abercrombie River Connections	Download
2017	Biodiversity Conservation	Luke Kidd	Australia	Australia. A spatio-temporal assessment of the impact of climate change on hydrological refugia in Eastern Australia using the Budyko water balance.	Download
2017	Biodiversity Conservation	Mark Drew	United States	Sierra Meadow Strategy: A process and outcome centered on increasing pace and scale of meadow restoration.	Download
2017	Biodiversity Conservation	Arturo Garcia	Mexico	A North American Migratory Bird Partnership: Restoration, Monitoring, and Community Engagement in the Rio Laja, Mexico and Willamette Basin, USA.	Download
2017	Biodiversity Conservation	Adrian Martins	Australia	Partnership approach to freshwater turtle conservation in Northern Victoria.	Download
2016	Technology and Innovation	Dr. Pradeep Mehta, Surbhi Sharma, Surabhi Bhardwaj, Pranab J. Patar and Raghuvansh Saxena	India	Monitoring River Ecosystems Through Citizen Science and Digital Tools	Download
2016	Technology and Innovation	Ajitkumar Babar and Sarat Chandra Bokka (presenter)	India	A framework for Ecological Transformation of Musi River through Geodesign	Download
2016	Policy, governance and institutions	Kathleen Broderick	Australia	River Management in the context of CBNRM: An Australian Story	Download
2016	Managing large rivers for shared benefit	Md. Habibur Rahman	Bangladesh	Taming the Lower Brahmaputra River- Bangladesh initiative
2016	Managing large rivers for shared benefit	Will Mooney and Peter Ingram	Australia	Aboriginal Waterway Assessments: new tools for realising shared benefits in the Murray Darling Basin	Download
2016	Integrated river basin management	Chathura Sanjeewa, Ruwan Liyanage, Manjula Wijekoon and Prasanna Pradeep	Sri Lanka	Risk assessment for developing sustainable catchment management practices in Badulu Oya Upper Watershed, Sri Lanka
2016	Integrated river basin management	Dave Penton, Luis Neumann, Tanya Doody, Tira Foran, Susan Cuddy and Hongxing Zhen	Australia	Supporting integrated water resources management in the Koshi Basin, and beyond
2016	Integrated river basin management	Alastair Driver	United Kingdom	The story of the Thames – from liquid history to solid future	Download
2016	Environmental Flows	Alison Joubert, Jackie King and Cate Brown	South Africa	Comparing incomparables in DRIFT EFlows assessments	Download
2016	Community engagement, gender and leadership	Nusrat Khan, Sheikh Rokon, Azaz Mohammad, Ireen Sultana, Toriqul Islam and Shariful Islam	Bangladesh	Academic Documentation to Restore River: A Success Story on Boral River, Bangladesh	Download
2016	Climate change and sustainable development	Nina Hall and Eva Abal	Australia	Can water sustainability be achieved through UN Sustainable Development Goal 6? Implications, challenges and possibilities
2016	Climate change and sustainable development	Nina Hall, Steven Kenway and Eva Abal	Australia	Ensuring resilience in energy-water-food management ahead of the next climate shock
2016	Water quality and public health	Anupama Kumar		Water quality and public health	Download
2016	Water quality and public health	Nashid Mirza, Tahiya Tarannum and Tanvir Ahmed	Bangladesh	Contribution of Drinking Water to Dietary Intakes of Selected Trace Mineral Nutrients in Bangladesh	Download
2016	Water quality and public health	Carmelita Martinez and Ludivina Porticos	Philippines	Speciation of Lead and Cadmium in the Water of Various Rivers in Masara, Maco, Compostela Valley	Download
2016	Water quality and public health	Anu Kumar, Mohana Krishna Mudiam, Peter Bain, Alok Pandey and Jenny Stauber	Australia	Identification and management of sewage effluent discharges to keep our rivers healthy: Comparative investigations in India and South Australia
2016	Water quality and public health	Pritha Bhattacharya	Australia	Understanding the barriers that prohibit the integrations of TWCM principles in the water strategies of urban utilities	Download
2016	Water quality and public health	Prigi Arisandi and Daru Rini	Indonesia	Promoting Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships in Improving Water Pollution Control and Preserving Biodiversity of Brantas Watershed Indonesia	Download
2016	Urban Rivers	Harsh Vardhan, Stuart Cleven and Simon Tilleard	India	Urban wetlands for liveability – case studies from India and Australia	Download
2016	Urban Rivers	Hanieh Goharipour	Iran	River Ecotourism	Download
2016	Urban Rivers	Amos Brandeis	Israel	Urban River Restoration: Cities & Water	Download
2016	Urban Rivers	Natalie Baker	Australia	Building a Flood Resilient Brisbane
2016	Urban Rivers	Md. Alauddin	Bangladesh	Conservation of rivers for environment friendly urbanisation in the context of Bangladesh	Download
2016	Technology and Innovation	Partha Susarla	Australia	Managing Nutrients from Sewage Treatment Plant Discharges in to Receiving Waters by Utilising Nutrient Offsets Framework	Download
2016	Technology and Innovation	Sanjay Yadav and Minal Jariwala	India	Assessing a varying demand scenario using WEAP for Damanganga Project, India	Download
2016	Technology and Innovation	Ranvir Singh	New Zealand	Water Sensitive Growth, Not Water Intensive Growth in the North-Western Indian States	Download
2016	Technology and Innovation	Jack Schubert	Australia	Nanotechnology for Water Treatment
2016	Technology and Innovation	Rabindra Nath Sankhua, Rajendra Kumar Jain, Sandeep Bisht and Shikha Deep	India	Modelling a part of Baitarani Sub-Basin using river system approach through source software	Download
2016	Technology and Innovation	Craig McVeigh, Lucy Barton and Adam Smith	Australia	It’s more than just introducing technology: water resources data and information management systems in a post-conflict country	Download
2016	Technology and Innovation	Hari Gurung and Juerg Merz	Nepal	Riverbed Farming Technology adoption by land poor farmers of Tarai districts of Nepal	Download
2016	Technology and Innovation	Sally German, Katie Atkinson, Irantzu Lexartza and David Hetherington	United Kingdom	Hydromorphological walkover survey of 5500km of Scottish Rivers: lessons and opportunities
2016	River Restoration	Bart Fokkens	Netherlands	Building sustainable partnetships in river basin management	Download
2016	River Restoration	Daru Rini, Endang Arisoesilaningsih, Donny Harisuseno and Soemarno Soemarno	Indonesia	Application of Ecohydraulic Approach in Bank Protection Model	Download
2016	River Restoration	Rajesh Ramamoorthy	India	Multi-stakeholder approach to tributary river restoration	Download
2016	Policy, governance and institutions	Cesar Suarez, Saulo Usma, Luis German Naranjo, Simon Costanzo, Sarah Freeman and Michele Thieme	Colombia	Orinoco Report Card: A Tool for Improving and Maintaining Basin Health	Download
2016	Policy, governance and institutions	Shawahiq Siddiqui, Shilpa Chohan and Tira Foran	India	Shared Basins –Contested Benefits: Need for an alternative diplomacy paradigm for improving formal trans-boundary water instruments between India and Nepal
2016	Policy, governance and institutions	Jess Schoeman, Catherine Allan and Max Finlayson	Australia	How can learning be enhanced in water policy, governance and institutions?	Download
2016	Policy, governance and institutions	Raphaël Glémet, Archana Chatterjee (presenter) and Vishwa Ranjan Sinha		Enhancing Cooperation through Water Diplomacy and Multilevel Stakeholder Engagement: Learning’s from IUCN Experiences in Asia
2016	Policy, governance and institutions	John Dore	Australia	Deliberative Water Governance
2016	Policy, governance and institutions	Tara Davis	United States	The Oregon Model: A Grassroots Approach to Watershed Health	Download
2016	Policy, governance and institutions	Perin Davey	Australia	Impacts and outcomes of water policy reform for irrigation intensive regions: A grass-roots look at the implementation of the Murray-Darling Basin Plan	Download
2016	Managing large rivers for shared benefit	Vaqar Zakaria	Pakistan	Opportunities for Cross-border Collaboration in Monitoring and Management of River Biodiversity in Indus Basin – Moving from Conflict to Shared Responsibility	Download
2016	Managing large rivers for shared benefit	Yumiko Yasuda	Sweden	Stepping out of the ‘water-box’: Re-thinking transboundary water cooperation	Download
2016	Managing large rivers for shared benefit	Carmel Pollino, Amit Parashar, Geoff Podger, Rajendra Kumar Jain and Peter Wallbrink	Australia	Supporting Basin Planning in India: Building on Experiences in Australia
2016	Managing large rivers for shared benefit	Neha Khandekar, Chicu Lokgariwar and Anil Gautam	India	Socio-cultural and livelihoods flow assessment for Ramganga river, India	Download
2016	Managing large rivers for shared benefit	Shivakumar Kanike and Biksham Gujja	India	Variability of river discharges: A major challenge for water allocations and water management in India	Download
2016	Managing large rivers for shared benefit	Shilpa Bagade	India	Issues and Challenges of Transboundary Water Management with Special Reference to Kosi River	Download
2016	Integrated river basin management	Mark Wolfsbauer	Australia	Water insecurity and IWRM in West Timor, Indonesia	Download
2016	Integrated river basin management	Tabea Stötter	Germany	The Rhine and its water quality	Download
2016	Integrated river basin management	Mobin-ud-Din Ahmad, Mac Kirby and Geoff Podger	Australia	Water use and agricultural production trends in the Indus basin: Implications for future food security and their significance to environmental flows
2016	Integrated river basin management	David Hetherington, Paul Quinn and Alex Nicholson	United Kingdom	Restoring river system processes at the catchment scale for economic and social resilience	Download
2016	Integrated river basin management	Dr Avinash Garudkar, Channawir Birajdar, Dr Carl Daamen, Er Karina Redpath and Dr Robert Carr		Development of river basin models for investigation of improved water management options: case study of the Upper Godavari basin in India	Download
2016	Integrated river basin management	Matthew Gardner	New Zealand	Long term managament of a rapidly aggrading alluvial river in New Zealand	Download
2016	Integrated river basin management	William Dennison, R. Heath Kelsey and Michele Thieme	United States	Developing river basin report cards: A practitioner’s guide
2016	Integrated river basin management	Simon Costanzo, Heath Kelsey, Andrea Abassi, Sarah Freeman and Louise Gallagher	United States	Future Cards – Tools for Integrated River Basin Management
2016	Hydropower	Debashish Sen and Neha Khandekar	India	Water-energy-food nexus lessons from small hydropower in Bhilangana Sub-basin, Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India	Download
2016	Hydropower	Muhammad Rafique, Vaqar Zakaria and Cate Brown	Pakistan	Impact of Hydropower Projects and of the 1960s Indus Water Treaty on the Fish Fauna found in the Indus and Jhelum River Basins common to India and Pakistan	Download
2016	Hydropower	Arun Kumar	India	Hydropower, Environment and Environmental Flows	Download
2016	Hydropower	Kelly Kibler and Mohammadhossein Alipour	United States	Flow alteration signatures of diversion hydropower: An analysis of 32 rivers in southwestern China	Download
2016	Hydropower	Tira Foran, Zhu Xianghui, David Fullbrook and Sue Cuddy (presenter)	Australia	Gaining public rejection: lessons for sustainable hydropower development from Myanmar’s Myitsone Dam
2016	Hydropower	Sanchit Saran Agarwal, Mitthan Lal Kansal and David E. Rheinheimer	India	Issues and challenges of sustainable hydropower development in the Indian-Himalayan region	Download
2016	Environmental Flows	Renie Thomas, Geetu Thakur and Vijayasekaran Duraisamy	India	Ecohydrological status of natural springs in Akole and Sangamner blocks of Ahmednagar district and their significance to environmental flows	Download
2016	Environmental Flows	Alvin Lopez (presenter) and Qingfeng Zhang	Philippines	Paving the Way for Watershed Services Protection: Lessons from China and Beyond
2016	Environmental Flow	Jacqueline King	South Africa	All dressed up with somewhere to go
2016	Environmental Flows	Jeanette Jensen and Alex Gardner	Australia	Is there an international legal duty to restore wetlands and waterways by environmental water allocations?	Download
2016	Environmental Flows	Shushobhit Chaudhary, C. T. Dhanya and Arun Kumar	India	Environmental Flow Considering Water Quality and Changing Climate: An Emerging Issue in River Water Management
2016	Environmental Flows	Somnath Bandyopadhyay and Arun Dixit	India	Towards e-flow policies for seasonal river systems through valuation of ecosystem services and biodiversity	Download
2016	Environmental Flows	Angela Arthington	Australia	ELOHA – Ecological Limits of Hydrologic Alteration: what have we learned?
2016	Community engagement, gender and leadership	Jonathan Ho	Hong Kong	Monitoring the world’s rivers through citizen science; results and case studies from major Asian Pacific cities
2016	Community engagement, gender and leadership	Surani Hasanati and Prof Suratman	Indonesia	Women’s involment in the river restoration movement Indonesia	Download
2016	Community engagement, gender and leadership	Imtiaz Ahmed and Farah Kabir	Bangladesh	Water Museum; for River and Water Democracy	Download
2016	Climate change and sustainable development	Thakur Pandit, Simon Tilleard (presenter) and Jeremy Carew-Reid	Nepal	Traditional Water Sources in Nepal – Status and climate resilience	Download
2016	Climate change and sustainable development	Archana Sarkar	India	Observed Trends and Changes in Daily Precipitation Events over Uttarakhand State in India 1901-2013
2016	Climate change and sustainable development	Safa Fanaian	India	Linking natural capital to economic indicators for freshwater systems
2016	Climate change and sustainable development	Karen Delfau and Raymond Lam	Australia	Launch of the Australian Water Knowledge Digital Platform – An Initiative to Share Australian Water Expertise with the Asia Pacific Region.

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