ANU Water Expertise
Researchers and educators at the ANU have established strengths across a broad spectrum of water-related issues, from global change, public health, policy analysis, environmental law, environmental economics, indigenous and gender issues, through to hydrology, geochemistry and membrane technology which are applied over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales.
Water-related education and research is currently carried out across the campus in a range of disciplines and academic areas. The work conducted and expertise within these areas is summarised below.
Academic Area |
Water-related work and expertise |
| Crawford School of Economics and Government |
- Economics & decision making
- Water policy & regulation
- Water pricing, markets & sales
- Ground water access & management
- Water supply & allocation
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| Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) |
- Regional profiling of demographic & socioeconomic characteristics of Indigenous people, including basin & catchment level profiling
- Investigating Indigenous peoples' economic, social & cultural interests in water
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Faculty of Arts
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- Creating contemporary music & visual aesthetic material addressing water
- Critical re-enforcement of cultural foundations for addressing water challenges
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Faculty of Science
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- Integrated water management
- Water policy & regulation
- Water quality
- Sedimentation & salinity
- Hydrology
- Ground water & surface water
- Decision support systems
- Water trading
- Institutional analysis
- Indigenous water knowledge & cultural flows
- Indigenous water governance, policy, ethics, & philosophy
- Cultural values & water
- History of water institutions & federalism
- Policy & institutional analysis
- Remote sensing
- Aqueous geochemistry
- Groundwater flow & hydrogeochemistry
- Geomicrobiology/biogeochemistry
- Groundwater ecology
- Water-soil, -sediment & -rock interaction
- Regolith geoscience
- Salinity, alkalinity & acid sulphate environments
- Acid & heavy metal contamination
- Environmental impact of mining & other human activity
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| Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management (iCAM) |
- Integrated water resource management
- Integrated modelling & uncertainty assessment
- River, groundwater & catchment management
- Water related decision making & decision support systems
- Hydro-economic modelling
- Regional economic impacts
- Urban water management
- Hydrology (surface & subsurface & their interactions)
- Water quality inc sediment, nutrients & pathogens
- Water allocation processes
- Hydro-ecological modelling
- Water-related networks
- Software engineering
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| Law Faculty |
- Federalism & water regulation
- History of water use, law & policy
- Human rights & water
- Indigenous rights & interests in water (onshore & offshore)
- Property rights in water
- Regulatory design for scientific uncertainty (precaution)
- The law of international watercourses
- Water policy & regulation
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| National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health (NCEPH) |
- Public health & water-borne diseases
- Water & development
- Cross-disciplinary integration for policy & practice
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| Research School of the Humanities |
- International water policy
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| Research School of Earth Sciences (RSES) |
- Geomorphology
- Geochronology
- Trace element & isotope analysis
- Fluid dynamics
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| Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (RSPAS) |
- Gender & water
- Water & development
- Water & communities
- Social, economic & cultural aspects of water resource management
- Water & environmental history
- Water resource politics
- Quality of water & spread of water-borne diseases
- Water pricing issues
- Attainment of water related MDG in Asia Pacific Region
- Planning for the water needs of Asian mega-cities
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