The Future Water Story is a brand new experience at the Western Treatment Plant and combines our highly valued tour program with a new digital interactive experience called Circular Cities Challenge. So what’s unique about this experience is it brings in role playing and decision making and problem solving, and it really helps the students understand what it takes to build a future city and all the complexities that it comes with managing our water supply and system. At Melbourne Water, we know that we have some big challenges ahead of us when it comes to climate change, population growth, which is going to impact our water supply now and into the future.

So it’s really important that this type of experience really builds students understanding around those challenges, and what are those choices that we have to make now and for future generations to come. It’s really important because they're our future leaders, our future influencers. You can’t get anything like this experience anywhere else.