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Hi Sina, Sorry for the delay in replying. I am not part of the development team for Catchment Detox, nor CONCEPT, although I do work for eWater and manage the Catchment Modelling TOOLKIT where our water management and science tools are available. eWater is very please to be involved in the Catchment Detox project. The interest in, and feedback about, Catchment Detox has been impressive and encouraging. Getting the message to students, and the wider community, about water management decisions within our catchments is important. Btw. eWater is a technology development initiative set up by the Australia's water resource management and research sector under the Australian Government's Cooperative Research Centre Program. Have a great day.

By way of clarification about the origins of Catchment Detox... The model (CONCEPT) behind the game was developed by Nick Marsh, Sylvain Arene and Stuart Minchin in a collaboration between the CSIRO Division of Land and Water and the eWater Cooperative Research Centre. CONCEPT is a tool for creating dynamic conceptual diagrams, and has been release a beta version for testing and further development. It is a drawing package that allows the user to display the important elements of a scenario in a visually appealing way and to show the links between these elements. The links can have relationships associated with them and these relationships can be changed dynamically to show changed conditions for the elements under different scenarios. The software can be used to model just about any situation for purposes ranging from communicating processes and scenarios to stakeholders, to consensus building, issues scoping and prioritising. CONCEPT was originally designed for a natural resource management audience, but it could be used by anyone who needs to visualise a process. Please feel free to provide feedback about CONCEPT or Catchment Detox to [email protected].