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August 2025
At VicWater we are always looking for ways to bring our members and other stakeholders together to build trusted relationships and a sense of shared ownership and purpose. Last month we had two opportunities to put this into practice.
August 2025
Carbon Offsets Project
The Project Oversight Committee sub-group that was developing the draft operating model and budget for year one of the SPV has completed its task. These documents are now ready to be provided to the SPV once it is formed.
August 2025
Each year at the VicWater Annual Conference, the Women in Water Director’s Network hold an event which is open to all delegates and focuses on diversity and inclusion. This year we are very excited to have Hayley Monks, Managing Director of Echo Managed Services, to speak at this event.
July 2025
Happy New Financial Year! Hope your close outs went as well as they could go.
As you may be aware, we had a glitch in our IT matrix last month. In short, we had a series of “reply all” emails that went to our entire list – some 27,500 emails sent within an hour, resulting in Microsoft shutting down the VicWater email domain. The outage lasted 10 days.
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Yarra Valley Water shines at the 2023 Australian Service Excellence Awards
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Helping the community stay on track with finances
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Water Industry Careers Campaign
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Insight: Executive leadership for women in water
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Local children’s artwork celebrating water goes on exhibition
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Growing a greener west at Werribee’s Woody Meadow
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Making super contributions
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