Huw Pohlner – Valuing water as a framework for identifying water management priorities

AWP Kini Interviews with Leading Water Practioners

Welcome to this Kini Interview with Huw Pohler, Senior Consultant with Aither (www.aither.com.au), an economics, policy, and strategy consulting firm. Huw is a multidisciplinary water resource management and Asia engagement specialist, with on-the-ground experience in Australia, China, Malaysia, Myanmar and the UK. Before joining Aither, he worked in the federal public service (Murray-Darling Basin Authority), the not-for-profit sector (Asialink) the international consulting business (China Policy), and the tertiary education sector (ANU). Huw is an accomplished innovator; he co-founded the successful and sustainable Australia-China Youth Association and helped leverage a major grant from the federal government to establish Asialink Business. In this interview, we discuss - Lasting, meaningful connections and knowledge sharing between Chinese and Australians; - Aither’s Valuing Water Framework, and how countries might be able to engage with this tool; - Huw’s impressions on how to strategically prioritise national water management issues, with key stakeholders, in order to make progress in water management; - The critical importance of the water-food-energy nexus; - The growing concern of degrading surface water quality, and solutions that are emerging to monitor and improve water quality; We hope you enjoy this interview. For more updates please visit www.Kini.org.au.