ENGIN 4201 Report: Melbourne City Water Resource Management Case Study

This report provides an overview of water resource management in Melbourne, focusing on the city's approach to water resource management. It begins with an introduction to the concept of water resource management and then presents a case study on Melbourne. The report details the involvement of key agencies such as the Victorian Government's Department of Environment and Melbourne Water, and discusses the projects undertaken for water management, including the Victorian Desalination Plant and the Northern Sewage Project. It also highlights the global water challenges and the role of organizations like the Global Water Challenge. The report concludes by summarizing the key aspects of water management in Melbourne and references relevant sources. The report also fulfills the assignment brief's requirements by discussing environmental aspects, key agencies, and the key considerations of the case study.

MANAGEMENT FOR
WATER RESOURCE
Melbourne city

INTRODUCTION
Water resource management is the arranging, creating, dispersing and dealing
with the more full or ideal use of water assets(bom.gov.au, 2019).
Selected case study is Water resource management in the Melbourne
City.
This case study will cover environment aspects such as water
management.
Apart from this, discussion will be made about the involvement of the
key agencies.

WATER MANAGEMENT IN
MELBOURNE CITY
 The City of Melbourne is one of the greatest water user in the Australian
region
 A huge part of this water is utilized for water system of our open parks,
nurseries and vegetation. (Gore, 2018).
 The Victorian Government's Department of Environment is in charge of
giving guidance inside the water area, crosswise over both metropolitan
Melbourne and Victoria (urbanwater.melbourne.vic.gov.au, 2019).
 Melbourne Water was framed by the merger of Melbourne and
Metropolitan Board of Works and various littler urban water experts in
1992.

PROJECTS: BY THE GOVERNMENT
FOR WATER MANAGEMENT
 Victoria Desalination plant:
 The Victorian Desalination Plant is of worth A$3.1 billion. This
plant operates in the Wonthaggi area of the Bass Coast. The plant
execrates 150 gigalitres of water each year.
 Northern Sewage project (waste management):
 Northern Sewerage Project is a critical establishment errand to
extend the farthest point of the sewerage system in Melbourne's
creating northern rustic territories.
 It will in like manner help to guarantee the Merri and Moonee
Ponds Creeks by all plans and purposes forgoing sewage floods
that can occur subsequent to overpowering precipitation.

INVOLVEMENT OF KEY
AGENCIES
 Melbourne Water comprises
 10 significant stockpiling supplies with a limit of 1,810,500
megaliters.
 64 assistance supplies that give momentary stockpiling.
 Around 1300 kilometers of dispersion mains and water systems.
 5 filters as for obtaining clean water.
 49 water machineries that purifies the water.

WATER STORAGES
 Melbourne city have the 10 reservoirs and out of 10, details for 7
reservoirs are listed below . Every reservoirs have the unique
capacity in megalitres for storing the water (Altenburger, et. al.,
2015).Name Year
complete
d
Capacity
(megaliter
s)
Upper
Yarra
1957 200,000
Thomson 1983 1,068,000
Greenval
e 1971 27,000
Silvan 1932 40,000
Maroond
ah 1927 22,000
Yan Yean 30,000 1857
Tarago 37,500 1969

GLOBAL WATER CHALLENGE
 The Global Water Challenge, or GWC, is a social affair that
"interface affiliations across over sections to settle our existence's
most pressing water troubles.
 GWC is the mailed instrument set up the World Health
Organization. This purpose of the GWC is motivate the people
around the global for water resource and solving the water scarcity
challenge.

CONCLUSION
 The Government of Victoria’s water resource department is
responsible for the activities of water management.
 Victoria Desalination plant and Northern Sewage project are the two
plant which are formed by the government for the water and
wastage management.
 Melbourne have 10 big reservoirs for water storage.
 The world is also facing the challenges from the global water crises.

REFERENCES
 Altenburger, R., Ait-Aissa, S., Antczak, P., Backhaus, T., Barceló, D., Seiler, T. B.,
& de Aragao Umbuzeiro, G. (2015). Future water quality monitoring—adapting
tools to deal with mixtures of pollutants in water resource
management. Science of the total environment, 512(1), 540-551.
 Bom.gov.au. (2019). Melbourne: Water management. Retrieved from:
http://www.bom.gov.au/water/nwa/2016/melbourne/regiondescription/waterman
agement.shtml
 Gore, J.A. (2018). Alternatives in regulated river management. Boca Raton: CRC
Press.
 Pedro-Monzonís, M., Solera, A., Ferrer, J., Estrela, T., & Paredes-Arquiola, J.
(2015). A review of water scarcity and drought indexes in water resources
planning and management. Journal of Hydrology, 527(2), 482-493.
 urbanwater.melbourne.vic.gov.au. (2019). What do we manage? Retrieved
from:
http://urbanwater.melbourne.vic.gov.au/melbournes-water-story/what-is-the-city