• Understand how they have incorporated international guidelines to improve water management through governance structures, risk management and reportability initiatives.
• Hear how they are maximizing water reuse to reduce freshwater use to enhance water efficiency and reduce their environmental footprint.
• Learn how they are providing ongoing training and stakeholder engagement promoting sustainability and operational efficiency.

• Hear how they are engaging with community representatives in water management planning.
• Learn how they are building trust to achieve water stewardship success.
• Identify tangible benefits to local communities.

• Discover how the Pilbara region’s early 2000s expansion relied on tactical mining with water management as a key enabler.
• Learn how operations are now in a sustaining phase, with older mines closing & replacements underway.
• Understand the adaptive approach to water management, aligning corporate water goals with operational tools that supports mine plans. 

Collaborate with your peers in small groups to take the lessons learned from the previous case studies and apply to your stewardship and community engagement strategies  

• How can mining companies better communicate sustainability efforts to communities?
• How can we better align corporate water goals with onsite reality?  
• How can mining companies better incorporate community concerns into water management planning? 

• Performance of the bioreactor.     
• Required maintenance, including rebuilds and tracer studies.
• Opportunities for increased treatment rates.

• Results of utilizing a new non-hazardous, environmentally friendly reagent with several technical advantages in water treatment.
• Optimizing in-situ treatment using an unmanned smart dispensing vessel: lessons learned from site demonstrations.
• ESG and economic benefits achieved.

• An 8-step guide to developing an effective, compliant, and sustainable process design for a water treatment plant in a mining operation.
• A comprehensive approach to minimize risks and ensure a reliable water treatment system tailored to the specific needs and goals of a mine.

• Water stewardship for constituent strategy development to minimize environmental impact.
• Using sustainability lenses incorporating company and local community values to determine a path forward.
• Outcomes of developed strategy.

• Water and sanitation (WASH) challenges facing communities in and around mines.
• CSI options for sustainable water management.
• Trust-building through community-corporate WASH partnerships: lessons from Pitstop/Eradicatour.

• Steps Newmont is taking to prepare for evolving nature reporting requirements, focusing on water.
• Commitment to contribute to nature positive future.

• Continuously monitor water inputs, outputs, and quality to ensure compliance and transparency.
• Employ advanced technologies and innovative techniques to minimize water consumption.
• Implement closed-loop systems to maximize water recycling.

• Hear how New Gold’s site water balance went from negative to positive to negative and optimized utilization.
• Understand how they managed this transition with an operational water balance model as the priority tool to make informed decisions.
• Learn how they developed a multidisciplinary team that collaborated to ensure quality outputs of the model that were useful across departments on site.

• Hear their use of geophysical tools to characterize hydraulic properties of the bedrock.
• Advantages compared to packer testing.
• Results presentations.

• Groundwater decision support in mining can be limited by single, rigid models
• Gain insights from the problem decomposition of a dewatering management challenge
• Discover the computational tools tested to support management planning and short-term adaptation