ANCOLD Conference Presentations

At the ANCOLD 2018 conference in Melbourne, there will be four presentations by HARC staff:  Review of the impacts of dam operations on flood hydrology, by David Stephens. Current Australian and international practices for dam failure consequence assessments, by Simon Lang Advances in the automation of population at risk quantification for dam failure consequence assessments, […]

We’re updating our contact details!

We’re updating our contact details!  HARC are pleased to announce that we have recently secured the web domain dev7.preflight.com.au, and as of Wednesday August 15 will use this as the primary domain for our emails and website.  Our website can now be found at www.dev7.preflight.com.au, and our email addresses are now staff.member@dev7.preflight.com.au.  To make sure […]

Matthew Hardy joins HARC

HARC is delighted to welcome Dr Matthew Hardy. Matthew has 20 years’ experience as an urban water professional. With a background in urban hydrology and water resource management he has held roles in local and federal government, consulting and academia.  Prior to joining HARC, Matthew managed the Bureau of Meteorology’s urban water team and is […]

Presentations to Climate Adaptation Conference 2018

HARC’s Phillip Jordan and Declan O’Shea attended the Climate Adaptation Conference in 2018 Melbourne. The conference was run by the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility (NCCARF) and Engineers Australia. Phillip presented two papers: “Managing Urban Water Demands, the Challenges Presented by Climate Change” – lead author Russell Beatty “Incorporating Climate Change Projections for Rainfall […]

Managing Future Water Demands May Just be a Little More Interesting Than we Thought

HARC’s Russell Beatty recently presented at @Ozwater18 on the impact of key economic and socioeconomic drivers on future residential water demands.  Econometric analysis across a number of cities across Australia and New Zealand has shown that rising real household incomes has the potential to exert upward pressure on water demands.  The tremendously successful demand management […]