Dr Dan Deere works as a freelance Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) consultant (trading as ‘Water Futures’). He has over 20 years of experience as a water quality specialist.
He has a PhD in health-related water microbiology and has worked in a range of water quality roles including: Principal Scientist/Science and Research Manager with the Sydney Catchment Authority (bulk raw water supplier to approximately 5 million people via Sydney Water and a number of NSW Councils); Manager Water Quality for South East Water (retail water supplier to over 1.5 million people to the southeast of Melbourne); Research Program Group Leader with the CRC for Water Quality and Treatment’s Catchments, Reservoirs and Monitoring Research Programs; Visiting Fellow at the Water Research Centre, UNSW; Water Quality Specialist with CMPS&F; and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Macquarie University (studying waterborne pathogens via three fellowships in series from the Royal Society/Australian Academy of Sciences; the Wain Foundation and Macquarie University).
For over 15 years he has conducted Water Safety Plan training for the World Health Organization Western Pacific Regional Office as well as Drinking Water Quality Management training for the University of Queensland IWES program. Since 2016 Dan has been a member of the National Health and Medical Research Council’s Water Quality Advisory Committee responsible for the rolling revision process of the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines. Dan brings particular expertise in catchment and source water management, water microbiology and global best practices in drinking water quality management.
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