Delivering Water Security: Upgrading Assets, Reducing Loss, and Scaling Resilience
Speaker Spotlight: Ryan Chaffey — Written by Siddhi Mutha
Australia's water sector is entering one of the biggest infrastructure investment cycles in its history — but as Ryan Chaffey, Divisional Manager of Yarra Valley Water's Enterprise Portfolio Management Office, points out, having the capital isn't the hard part. With more than $600 million going into capital projects this year alone, and nearly $4 billion planned over the next five years, the real test is turning that spend into outcomes communities actually feel.
In this Speaker Spotlight ahead of the Water Infrastructure Renewal & Delivery Summit 2026, Ryan shares how Yarra Valley Water rebuilt its delivery model under pressure — moving from siloed project teams to a unified portfolio view, rethinking how projects get greenlit in the first place, and redefining what "success" means once the ribbon is cut.
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