2020 Victorian Water Award Finalists Winners announced on Thursday, 4 February 2021 at the Victorian Water Awards Luncheon.

R&D Excellence Award • Managing Risk from Post-Fire Erosion in Water Supply Catchments Melbourne Water, Alluvium Consulting and The University of Melbourne • Short-Cut Nitrogen Removal - An International Breakthrough Improving Effluent Quality and Energy Neutral Wastewater Treatment Melbourne Water, Jacobs, Barwon Water and John Holland-KBR Joint Venture • Smart System for Delivering Rainwater as Hot Water Fit for Showering, Bathing and Laundry Applications South East Water • The Use of Artificial Intelligence to Predict Failures on Water and Sewer Networks Veolia, Western Water and Coliban Water • Using Real-Time Information and Water Usage Feedback to Create New Habits South East Water and The University of Melbourne • Victorian Collaboration on Sewage Surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 (ColoSSoS VIC Node) WaterRA and ColoSSoS Project Partners

Infrastructure Project Innovation Award (Regional) • Environmental Asset Data Collection and Use - Spatial Data Structures and Tools for Best- Practice Catchment Management in the Water Industry Central Highlands Water • South West Loddon Pipeline Project GWMWater, Coliban Water, Goulbourn Murray Water, Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning • Torres Strait Islands Sustainable Water and Wastewater Management Plan Arup, Griffith University and Ganden Engineers & Project Managers

Infrastructure Project Innovation Award (Metro) • Australia's Environmentally Green Relining System – GeoKrete Aqua Metro Services and Melbourne Water • CBD Sewer Augmentation Stage 2A - Lonsdale Street Sewer Upgrade City West Water, SMEC and Robb Carr • Deriving Value Through Remote Access to Asset Information CH2M Beca • Grasmere Creek Revitalisation Project Melbourne Water, Alluvium Consulting and Greenworks

Organisational Excellence Award (sponsored by Fulton Hogan) • Delivering Digital Education that Serves Our Community Melbourne Water • Hardship Prediction Model City West Water • King System Experiment – Empowerment versus Water Restrictions North East Water, Goulburn Murray Water and Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning • Pride in Water Yarra Valley Water • Taking Action - GMW's Transformation Goulburn Murray Water • Wara Paring Indigenous Civil Construction Project Aqua Metro Services and Melbourne Water

Student Water Prize (sponsored by Eurofins) • An Integrated Method for Groundwater Vulnerability Assessment Using a DRASTICL Model and a Green Algae Ecotoxicity Test Adrian Cervantes, The University of Melbourne • Developing a Robust Ceramic Pressure-Driven Membrane- Based System for the Efficient Removal of Pollutants from Mining Wastewaters Seyed Mohsen Samaei, Swinburne University of Technology • Development of a Novel, Biofouling Resistant Passive Sampling Device for Ammonia Monitoring in Marine Waters with Neural Network-Based Calibration Lenka O'Connor Sraj, The University of Melbourne • The Development of Novel Nanofunctional Wastewater Remediation Strategies: Creating Clean Water for the Many, Not the Few Piumie Rajapaksha, RMIT University • Understanding Solids Behaviour and Biological Dynamics in Anaerobic Lagoons for Improved Energy Production from Waste Peter Wardrop, The University of Queensland

Young Water Professional of the Year (sponsored by Xylem) • Zoltan Kelly, Asset Information Improvement Specialist, Melbourne Water • Louise Loughnan, Senior Water and Wastewater Engineer, Jacobs • Joshua Quinn, Water Quality Scientist, South East Water • Simon Roberts, Senior Integrated Water Management Planner, City West Water • Celeste Ward, Process Engineer, Stantec

Water Professional of the Year • Deb Brown, Director, Resilient Cities and Towns, Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning • Carl Walters, Sustainable Irrigation Program Manager, Goulburn Broken Catchment Management Authority