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It aims to extend knowledge and skills into the water planning sector and to inform policy-making at national and state levels.
Project History
Planning how our water is used is critical to the sustainability of human and ecological communities. Water planners are faced with the difficult task of evaluating how to "best" distribute this precious resource.
The Water Planning Tools project develops tools to assist communities and governments as they address challenges in water planning. It aims to extend knowledge and skills into the water planning sector, and to inform policy-making at national and state levels.
This project aims to improve the certainty, legitimacy and efficiency of water planning processes across Australia. It will develop and trial a range of applied knowledge products in water planning including good practice tools, decision support systems and mechanisms targeted to address key issues in selected catchments.
A small multi-disciplinary team is working on this project. The project team comprises researchers from Griffith University, CSIRO, Sunshine Coast University and Charles Sturt University.
Individuals on the research team have well-established research and practical real-world track records in water research and natural resource management. Our wide ranging expertise in water includes legal, policy, social, economic, science including climate change with some of the best expertise in water and NRM planning, knowledge and adoption processes Australia wide.
This project will pilot tools in three planning processes in South Australia, Queensland, and the Northern Territory. The project team will work with stakeholders and government agencies to identify matters important to them in water plans and together will develop tools to address these matters.
SM2 Involvement
SM2 was involved in the project from early inception and was involved in the lengthy project with several phases. Tasks SM2 undertook include:
* Create an interactive portal, which will allow water planners to choose planning tools appropriate for a particular context i.e. to address a particular set of problems.
* The portal will allow the Australia Government to see the system in action (and therefore support the long term project objective - which is to secure funds to build full water planning management system).
* Provide user-friendly access to busy people to support them in their jobs
* To provide a system that provides tools to help water planners who do not have senior skills or experience.
* Design of an evaluation form of for users (so they can provide feedback on the site);
* The site will maintain the current look and feel, logo and branding including funding acknowledgements.
* The site will have a content management system which will enable content to be easily updated.
* To ensure the site was usable to many user groups, SM2 created a digital walkthrough of the Water Planning Tools website design of the key stages that will simulate the full site enabling a user to navigate though the planning site and see at a high level how it will function.
Strategy
* Internet Strategy
* Technical Specification
* Information architecture
* Creative Brief
* Workflow user groups
Creative
* Graphic Design
* Digital Design
Technology
* Google Analytics
* Website Development
* Updates & Support
* Joomla! Content Management System (CMS)
Solution
http://waterplanning.org.au
Date launched: Monday, 16 August 2010
