This article showcases an innovative sustainability project in the western region, involving collaboration between local government and industry.
Living Brooklyn project will establish a whole-of-water-cycle strategy for the Brooklyn Industrial Estate, to enable businesses to make smarter use of alternative water sources and adopt more efficient methods for operational practices such as dust suppression. The aim of Living Brooklyn is to produce an Integrated Water Management Strategy that responds to the unique and complex interactions of the social, political and economic systems shaping existing behaviour and activities at Brooklyn Industrial Estate.
The existing state of the precinct influences the productivity and prosperity of the broader area.
Living Brooklyn will bring together the people who use, govern and deliver water at the estate to agree the best steps forward to remove the barriers to health and prosperity at Brooklyn using water as the catalyst for change. Integrated Water Cycle Management (IWCM) will be used as the lens to focus on alternative, more sustainable approaches to water management that contribute to business health and success and more broadly Brooklyn’s liveability.
The purpose of this project is to engage in an open dialogue about water at Brooklyn and how it can be used to achieve a number of outcomes that will contribute to Brooklyn’s future prosperity. Living Brooklyn will facilitate a collaborative process with key stakeholders that will target the following outcomes:
- Identify the barriers to the uptake of IWCM
- Assemble a team from public and private sectors who together identify the reasonable and achievable improvements that can be made through IWCM at Brooklyn Industrial Area
- Build a legacy of knowledge that can be transferred between projects and people
- Improve social justice at Brooklyn Industrial Estate by implementing a process that empowers the people who deliver, use or are affected by water to work together for a healthier and more prosperous future.
Living Brooklyn is a solutions-focused project concerned with achieving a healthy future for all by prioritising openness, transparency and respect at all stages of its transition and into the future.
For further information, please contact:
Tashia Dixon
Project Manager – Living Brooklyn/Urban Design
Brimbank City Council
+61 3 9249 4958
(Post published by the Western Alliance for Greenhouse Action)
