NEWS AND UPDATES
Barwon Water achieves full switch to renewables
Barwon Water’s services are being delivered by net-zero emissions electricity, with all its facilities now powered by 100 per cent renewables. In a major milestone, the organisation [...]
Yarra Valley Water named top ranking water company on Financial Times Climate Leaders List
Yarra Valley Water has been named the top-ranking water company on the prestigious Financial Times Asia-Pacific Climate Leaders list for 2024 – for the second year in [...]
UV upgrade at water filtration plant shines a light for Myrniong
Greater Western Water (GWW) customers in Myrniong are benefiting from improved water quality following a $1 million upgrade to their local water filtration plant. The upgrade [...]
New underground water pipeline provides TAFE students with hands-on learning experience
Future tradies learned about the installation of a new underground water pipeline that will service 400,000 Melburnians, when Melbourne Water invited a group of Swinburne TAFE plumbing and welding [...]
Moe water supply protected with riverbank planting
Gippsland Water has safeguarded a key piece of Moe’s water network by planting more than 8,000 native trees and shrubs along Tanjil River near Tanjil South. [...]
Wet weather storage upgrade for Boneo
South East Water is upgrading an existing wastewater lagoon at the Boneo Water Recycling Plant to manage increased flows during wet weather events. The new emergency storage lagoon will [...]
IWN Hackathon – 20 September 2024
In a first for the Victorian Water Industry, IWN will be conducting a Data and Analytics Hackathon with the problem statement – “How might we use data and analytics [...]
Barwon Water welcomes funding for the Oxygen for Wastewater Project
Barwon Water welcomed $3 million funding announcement on 18 July from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to support an innovative project to use pure oxygen to make wastewater [...]
Applications for the 2025 Peter Cullen Trust Leadership Program are now open
Applications for the 2025 Peter Cullen Trust Leadership Program are now open The Peter Cullen Trust Leadership Program is a unique and transformative program fostering courageous [...]
Cyber protection and smishing
The ATO recently announced they will no longer send any hyperlinks in SMS communications to taxpayers, to help prevent people falling for phishing scams. This highlights the critical role [...]
Gippsland Water invests in Gippsland’s future
Gippsland Water is helping students kick start their careers locally with its annual Summer Internship Program. Applications are now open for the initiative, which is one [...]
Melbourne Water handles six Olympic swimming pools of contaminated water from chemical fire
The fallout from the Derrimut chemical fire continues as Melbourne Water has received and continues treating 12 million litres of contaminated firewater at its Western Treatment Plant (WTP): the [...]
