WEBINAR - Urban Stormwater Challenges in Changing Climates

A ‘watershed’ is an area of land from which all water drains, running downhill, to a shared destination - a river, pond, stream, lake, or estuary. Water flows in urbanised watersheds are being significantly altered compared to natural flows. When water flows over urban impervious surfaces, it picks up pollutants such as oil, gasoline, cigarette butts, fertilisers, pesticides, and industrial chemicals.

This webinar will unpack the future issues we will face in our growing urban settings. Urban watersheds have affected many people and places of residents across Australia. For the last 2 decades intense urban developments have impacted such watershed areas and will continue to do so in the future. With changing climates and the volume of surface water dwindling, stormwater in watersheds is becoming more and more unpredictable and with continue to grow.

With the increase of urban water volumes and the diffused pollution from watersheds, our threat to surface water and groundwater continues to rise. Urban water management is one of our key issues and has been proven challenging to overcome. Many past and present engineering concepts have adopted management methods however they have become inadequate to counteract against the ongoing and emerging issues surrounding it.

This webinar will cover the following areas of discussion:

• How urban rainfall/runoff is affecting our changing climate
• How we can diffuse pollution and the threat to surface water and groundwater
• Exploring new methods of prevention
• What challenges we will face in the future
• Strategies for management

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Dr. Rupak Aryal,

Senior Researcher,

Incredibly Pure
 

Rupak Aryal received his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 2003 studying urban stormwater quality and quantity. Since then, he spent his time in the research, teaching and consulting of water and stormwater at various organisations in Australia (University of Technology Sydney (2007-2010, 2018-2019, University of Queensland (2010-2012) University of South Australia (2012-2017), La Trobe University 2020-2021) and overseas (the University of Tokyo (Japan), Kathmandu University (Nepal), Ulsan University (South Korea)). Dr. Aryal’s area of expertise include urban stormwater and integrated management, surface water (lake and river), drinking water treatment technology, wastewater, and treatment technology.