The cost of water
How can we use data to achieve an equitable way of distributing the costs of providing clean water to residents?
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Upstream and Downstream
Project Info
Team Name
Charlotte's Web
Team Members
Charlotte , Brendan and 2 other members with unpublished profiles.
Project Description
Upstream and Downstream is the story of making waterway, environmental and planning data more accessible to communities who live upstream and downstream of development, so that they are empowered to have a say on behalf of the future residents of those places before key decisions that affect waterways are made. The example provided is for Merri Creek, but this same logic applies to urban growth areas across the rest of Melbourne.
Data Story
The range of government data sources available gave us the idea of using them to create a way for communities to provide input into key planning decisions that impact on waterways before they are finalised. Currently, community does not get enough input early in the process, especially in new suburbs where there are no residents yet, which can lead to mistakes being made or economic considerations taking precedence over social and environmental issues.
Dataset we used for the map is this one:
Some of the many others we could use are these ones, but the list is a lot longer than this:
https://data.gov.au/dataset/ds-melbourne-water-b8e85609afe2dcea2200709da66214a26f191723f79606b6b0278ced09b80cd0/details?q=waterways
https://data.gov.au/dataset/ds-melbourne-water-e35d72e735619507a49446236ed95e56d70cff348b018ca3fc026b28b1b7f60b/details?q=waterways
https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/waterway-structures
https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/designated-water-supply-catchments
Team DataSets
waterways
Description of Use Used to create a map
Challenge Entries
Managing Our Water Resources
Can water data help us understand and better manage our water resources and environment?
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Water information without borders
How do we better bring together information about our water systems across states borders?
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