Category Archives: Water@Risk – Annette Davison

#232 – ‘R’ IS FOR (WATER QUALITY) REPORT: BUT WHAT TYPE OF REPORT? – ANNETTE DAVISON & PHIL KRASNOSTEIN

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…..an explosive noise: the ‘report’ of a rifle.

…..an account or statement describing details or observations of an event, situation or other

 

 

A document plops into your inbox, you’re about to present these water quality results to your board, you’ve been waiting for them all day and you need to understand the content quickly.You’re hoping for the latter definition of report, but do you feel like you’ve just received the former?  Here we look at what makes a good report, in particular, for water quality. Continue reading →

#212 – YOUR GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK: ARE LIVES SAFE ON YOUR WATCH? – ANNETTE DAVISON

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Screen Shot 2018-07-21 at 8.38.46 AMIn June 2015, Paul Lau died in Macquarie University Hospital, after being admitted for a routine knee operation. In October 2016, a raft flipped over on the Thunder River Rapids ride at Dreamworld. Four people were killed. In a world that is moving towards customers being at the heart of everything, what happened to the focus on governance? Are lives safe on your watch? Continue reading →

#195 – WATER GOVERNANCE: A REPEATING FAILURE – ANNETTE DAVISON

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AAA-150x150In 2016, we posed the question – ‘Is our Water Supply Governance Broken?’. We talked about waterborne incidents being a repeating occurrence and the need to have good evidence-based governance in place to assure good outcomes for our communities and ratepayers.

So what have we learnt since then? Have waterborne incidents and outbreaks stopped happening? Has water governance improved? Continue reading →

#187 – NANOPARTICLES AND OUR WATER SUPPLIES – ANNETTE DAVISION & IAN LAW

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AAA&The Engineered Nanomaterial (ENM) industry is developing rapidly worldwide, bringing with it an expected increasing presence of ENMs in municipal wastewaters and ultimately, community water sources and supplies, over time. Happening in parallel, there is an increasing integration of the water cycle to help optimize use of our precious water resource – an integration that may increase exposure to ENMs. Given their increasing prevalence, what are the exposure pathways and public health risks posed by these ENMs? Can our water utilities really say we need not fear ENMs in our water supplies? How safe is the water we drink? Continue reading →

#149 – THE BIG SHORT: COULD IT HAPPEN AGAIN? – ANNETTE DAVISON

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AAA&Risk as a term, is often used or perceived as being synonymous with defence. Being defensive is not a bad thing – but being solely defensive, means your organisation may be missing opportunities. Events of recent times, global financial crisis (GFC) and others, have shown that the historical approaches to governance oversight have not worked. Key points arising from the inquiry into the GFC included:

  • Widespread failure in regulation
  • Breakdowns in corporate governance
  • Policymakers lacked a full understanding of the system they oversaw
  • Systemic breaches of accountability and ethics

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