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Meet IWN Champion Dante De Thomasis

Having spent time at Goulburn Murray Water, Western Water and now Melbourne Water, Dante De Thomasis is a career water engineer. But on weekends, you can find him at his family's ice cream shop.

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Meet IWN Champion Rachel Meinig

As an environmental engineer, our new City West Water Champion Rachel Meinig brings valuable experience to IWN. Here’s a quick Q&A to get to know her.

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Q&A with Amrit and Kam from Monash

Our latest students from Monash College Professional Pathways learnt about technology in the water industry, from IT to activated carbon. Before they finished up, we asked Amrit Raj Giri and Ka Man Ng (Kam) a few questions.

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Meet IWN team member, Michael Thomas

After almost 20 years in the Australian Defence Force, Michael was an ‘outsider’ when he joined the water industry. He became an IWN Champion to help fix that, and he hasn’t looked back. Here, he answers a few questions about his life and work.

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Meet IWN Champion: Meg Pillai

Meg helps oversee Victoria’s water grid to make sure we don’t have supply or delivery problems. She’s also IWN’s first Champion from the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP). Here’s a snapshot of what makes her tick.

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Q&A with Kristina Machena

When Kristina Machena moved to Australia from Lithuania, she had never spoken English before. Fast forward to today, where she leads planned works at South East Water and has recently taken up IWN’s Pipeline Intelligence Program Manager role. Here’s a chance to get to know her a little more.

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Meet IWN Champion: Dannii Anderson

Dannii Anderson from Central Highlands Water became an IWN Champion to gain a broader understanding of the water industry. In other words, she likes to know how things work. Here’s a chance to get to know her.

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IWN announces partnership with WIOA

Intelligent Water Networks (IWN) is pleased to announce our new strategic partnership with the Water Industry Operators Association of Australia (WIOA).

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Meet IWN Executive: Jen Rebeiro

As Chief Information Officer at City West Water, Jen Rebeiro is passionate about driving positive organisational change. Jen has been an IWN Executive Group member since March 2019. Take a moment to get to know her.

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Digital Engineering webinar

This month’s edition of the IWN Webinar series will take a look at what digital engineering means for water utilities.

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IWN program name change

Our previous IWN Program, Leak Detection, Condition Assessment and Infiltration has been rebranded to Pipeline Intelligence.

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Q&A with Program Manager: Rian Sullings

Did you know IWN has a Digital Metering program? Here, you can get to know program manager Rian Sullings from City West Water, who knows a thing or two about digital meters.

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Energy and Carbon Co-Lead announcement

The Intelligent Water Networks (IWN) have announced Rod Curtis will be joining the organisation as Energy and Carbon Co-Lead. Rod will be joining Program Manager Steve Reddington, who previously lead the Energy and Carbon program jointly with Ben Spedding.

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Digital Metering Systems program announced

We have reviewed our delivery structure to ensure we focus on servicing our members. As a result of this review, a new program stream has now be formed on Digital Metering Systems.

Intelligent Water Networks (IWN) are pleased to announce Rian Sullings from City West Water as our new Program Manager.

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April Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration webinar announced

The April webinar for Knowledge Sharing and Collaboration has been announced by Program Manager Michael Thomas. This series aims to share information and knowledge on topics of relevance and professional interest for the Intelligent Water Networks (IWN) community.

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IWN announce strategic partnership with SWAN

The Intelligent Water Networks (IWN) are pleased to announce our new Strategic Partnership with the Smart Water Network Forum (SWAN). This is a great opportunity to collaborate around new innovative technology, and will allow IWN and SWAN to complement each other’s work, rather than compete and duplicate existing work.

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