The University joined the Aqueduct Alliance, an association of water experts from the public and private sectors, non-governmental organizations and academia, last week. The University will aid the alliance in assessing water risk by developing a new version of the UVA Bay Game focused on an Australian watershed.
The UVA Bay Game is a participatory simulation game about the environmental sustainability of the Chesapeake Bay which shows how the decisions of individual stakeholders can affect both the watershed and the economy.
The University was introduced to the initiative through its relationship with General Electric, also a member of the alliance, said Gerard Learmonth, an Engineering professor and the designer and modifier of the UVA Bay Game.
Both the Aqueduct Alliance and the UVA Bay Game were collecting data for the Murray-Darling basin in Australia, and the groups "found it useful to work together," Learmonth said. The alliance asked the
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