Plenary NCGRT/IAH Australasian Groundwater Conference 2019

Groundwater forever – water for life (551)

Jane Coram 1
  1. CSIRO, Canberra, ACT, Australia

In this key note presentation, Jane Coram will synthesise the insights about the challenges and changes to groundwater management presented throughout the conference, and discuss how CSIRO is encouraging deeper collaboration in this complex space to improve groundwater management outcomes. Over the last 12 months, CSIRO’s Land and Water Business Unit, through its Water program and as part of CSIRO’s On Prime national innovation program, undertook a comprehensive customer discovery process with nearly 100 key stakeholders across seven market sectors, nationally and internationally. Ms Coram will share how CSIRO:

  • defined the sectors’ most pressing groundwater issues
  • identified the major knowledge gaps
  • evaluated the benefits to government and industry of the ever-increasing amount of data potentially relevant to groundwater management
  • identified the need for and is encouraging deeper collaboration across government agencies, academia and industries in the field of data integration and data driven scientific discovery.

Finally, Ms Coram will explore how these insights can be used in scientific projects to collectively ensure the sustainability of water for life now and into the future amidst profound and complex challenges and changes to our environment, society and economy.