Water Aid

Team Name

Keep The Kool Time (KTKT)

Team Members

Project Description

INTRODUCTION
There are four members making up KTKT who are Kylie, Thanh, Karthik and Tin. The project the group produces for the GovHack2019 competition.

PROBLEM
The problem the team wishes to tackle is water resource management in Australia. A central theme connecting them, with data across several states which is expressed by or related to the following challenges:

Maintaining consistent fresh water supply is crucial to cope with the burden exerted by growing human population. Furthermore, even though 2/3 of the Earth surface is water and 95% of which is seawater, unsuitable for most human daily consumption. Climate change in recent years has also altered water life cycle across the world, causing frequent abnormal natural disasters linked to water, depleting water reserves and flooding habitats.

Therefore, to have a sustainable water resources for humanity, there is a strong need to not only manage water resources more effectively but also innovate current processes. If we could tap into seawater for fresh water supply for instance, more water would be available for human consumption and activities. On the other hand, water waste management is vital to maintain the continuity of water cycle while contributing to a cleaner environment for living. For lasting and meaningful success, intensive and extensive support from the wider community, not just the government, is needed. The whole population should have access to sufficient and correct information on this topic before being able to contribute properly to this endeavor. Better customer experience with government services would invite collaboration with water management initiatives across Australia.

VISION
Using open-source data, KTKT aims to provide an educational tool in the form of web interface for everyone, including people with disabilities, to understand more about our relationship with water then manage the resources effectively with innovation and audience involvement.

Data Story

Before finalising our topic of focus, water resource management, we consolidated all the challenges, followed by the division into different categories by utilising mind map technique. Those with the relevance to at least 5 challenges were selected and went further through a process of elimination. Gradual enlargement of the scope helped us to single out the central theme with the most reach, which is water resource management. The runner up candidate was public infrastructure.
Relevant datasets and sources are the next targets. They are assessed further in terms of data quality and assigned to related challenges. The following step was to pre-process acquired data prior to analysis. Qualified foundation data must also fulfill the requirements set by chosen challenges while additional data were picked based on compatibility with starting data. Visualisation is produced from mentioned competent data to supplement understanding and make it easier to gain insights while being useful for demonstration in the solution’s platform.

The solution for the challenges was shortlisted depending on its ability to fulfil the requirements which in this case was an educational website on water catered for everyone with relevant features and functions.