MidCoast Water engineer wins Conference Attendance Award

We are pleased to announce that Tracey Hamer of MidCoast Water has won the AWA/Water Directorate Conference Attendance Award. Tracey graduated from Wollongong University with a degree in Environmental Engineering (Hons) in 2006 and is currently working as a Planning Engineer at MidCoast Water. Tracey will attend OzWater'13 in Perth 7-9 May 2013 and in her nomination noted that she is looking forward to hearing from Kusum Athukorala, particularly in relation to women and water, as well as attending and participating in the YWP workshop on water in regional and remote areas.

This is the tenth year that the Executive Committee has offered this award and funding, to assist a worthy engineer with up to 7 years experience from a member Council water business, to attend AWA's national water conference.The Water Directorate will provide $1,600 towards the cost of travel and accommodation and AWA has generously donated a conference registration also valued at approx $1,600.

Five highly qualified water industry professionals nominated for the award this year. The nominees were judged on their applications and assessment of the engineering, environmental and professional benefits to themselves and their councils from attending this peak water conference. Unsuccessful nominees are strongly encouraged to renominate for this award next year. Congratulations to Tracey. We look forward to hearing about your experiences from this year's Ozwater'13 in the near future.