Water resources and bushfire management: Watch an expert panel
As part of a water security series of events, watch an expert panel discuss disaster resilience and the impacts on water resources of 2020’s catastrophic south-eastern Australian bush fires.
Securing water supplies for towns and cities in the face of major bushfires could rely on the increased use of technology to more quickly identify fire events and increase the speed of response.
That’s one suggestion to come from a panel discussion on water security and disaster resilience coordinated by the University of Melbourne in February 2020.
The first discussion in the University’s Water Security Series for 2020 featured three forest and hydrology experts discussing the effects of bushfires on water resources, chaired by Associate Professor Meenakshi Arora.
Panelists
Professor Patrick Lane
University of Melbourne School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Science
Associate Professor Gary Sheridan
University of Melbourne School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Science
Geoff Steendam, Manager of Hydrological Risk and Planning
Victorian Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP)
First published on 28 October 2021.
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