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Engineers’ Australia and Water Sensitive Urban Design (WSUD) in the Sydney Region hosted the 13th International Conference last August 21-23 at the City of Sydney with support from the local government of Sydney and Melbourne and Australia’s Rainwater Harvesting Business Sector with a special sponsorship of Bluescope Water.

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Khaka posed a challenge to the Rainwater Harvesting Industry during the 13th international conference.

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“Rainwater Harvesting and Climate Change was one of the most popular topics in the conference and the papers presented in this session are published in this issue of Raindrop.

The contribution of urban water systems to Greenhouse Gas emission is discussed in the article of Flower et al “Urban Water Systems: Driver of Climate Change?“

Salas’ paper on “Rainwater Harvesting: A Community’s Technology for Coping with Climate Change“ advocates for a broader coping strategy framework in search of a technology which could help communities adapt to the exigencies of climate change.

Coombes and Barry made a preliminary analysis to compare the relative efficiencies of traditional centralised water supply strategies with decentralised rainwater harvesting approaches in their paper, “Efficiency of Roof and Traditional Water Supply Catchments Subject to Climate Change”

Mithraratne and Vale used detailed life-cycle analysis to answer the question in the title of their paper, “Rain Tanks or Reticulated Water Supply?” in looking for the most sustainable option.

“Climate Neutral Water Savings Scheme,” Blunt and Holt, explores the consequences of alternative water sources and their interaction with greenhouse gas emissions. A methodology, is presented for climate neutral water recycling. The methodology is developed for local government and is also applicable for a range of decision makers.

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IRCSA members presented various papers during the concurrent sessions of the 13th IRCSA conference in Sydney, Australia. Abstracts to selected papers presented in the conference were recently submitted for publication to the newsletter.

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Vision: Achieving full potential of rainwater harvesting in contributing to achieving the MDGs, particularly in countries not on track to halve the proportion of people without access to safe water by 2015.

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The Board of Directors of IRCSA unanimously chose Malaysia as the site of the 14th International Conference in 2009 from among three other bidders.

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The successes of IRCSA in recent years is brought about the diligent efforts not only of its members but most especially its officers and regional directors. The outgoing leadership is acknowledged for all their contributions to the organization.

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