New technology being developed by UTS scientists in Australia – the world’s driest inhabited continent – is recovering water from unconventional sources that include saline groundwater, wastewater from mine sites and human urine from city lavatories.

A UTS team of political sociologists is investigating the coal industry with a research project that challenges the development of new mining projects.

Associate Professor Juliet Willetts, Research Director at the UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures, has spent the last three years immersed in Enterprise in WASH (Water Sanitation and Hygiene), a research initiative in Vietnam, Indonesia and Timor-Leste to advise national policymakers and practitioners.

Four years ago, The Australian Alliance to Save Energy (A2SE), together with the UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures, initiated the annual Australian Summer Study on Energy Productivity, to ensure energy productivity remained a top priority on the national and international agenda.

Researchers from the Institute for Sustainable Futures have produced the first national data on urban tree cover, helping us understand why certain urban areas are much hotter than others, and more importantly, what we can do about it.

A collaborative project led by the Knowledge Economy Institute and the UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures (ISF) is using data science to deliver new insights into Sydney’s urban environment.

Sydney company Junglefy is increasing opportunities for living infrastructure innovation by combining their industry expertise with the technical know-how of UTS researchers.