Cara Beal is a Research Fellow at the Smart Water Centre, Griffith University where she manages research into urban water end use analysis. Prior to this appointment Cara worked in DERM (Qld. Department Environment & Resource Management) on various aspects of sustainable urban and decentralised water management including the development of a pilot project for urine separation toilets at the Currumbin Ecovillage. This followed on from her PhD work on the hydrogeochemistry of septic absorption trenches, on which she became an acknowledged world expert.
