BUILDING A WATER RESILIENT TOWN

摘要

This paper presents the journey of the Googong IWCrnproject. Conceptualised in 2002, the project involvedrnsome 15 years of planning, design, approvals, and assetrndelivery. To date, the Stage 1 IWC assets have been fullyrndelivered. This has enabled Googong to be a thrivingrntown of some 2,000 people after a short period of threernyears since the first residents moved in. Preliminary flowrnmonitoring analyses suggest that the town is well on itsrnway of achieving its originally stated goal – to be a waterrnresilient town where 18,000 people will use the samernamount of water that 6,500 normally would.