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

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.