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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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Barwon Water help region blossom with Schools Tree Day program
Barwon Water is helping students from more than 10 schools plant thousands of native grasses and shrubs as part of its Schools Tree Day program. Students at [...]
Yarra Valley Water signs with NPS to deliver meter program
Yarra Valley Water has signed a new five-year contract worth over $40 million with New Plumbing Services (NPS) to deliver its meter replacement program. NPS has been [...]
Gippsland Water to continue wind farm investigation
Gippsland Water will continue to explore the possibility of a wind farm at Dutson Downs, following initial community consultation undertaken earlier this year. The consultation sought to [...]
Solar farm powering wastewater treatment in Wodonga
A new 3 megawatt solar farm is now powering the Wodonga Wastewater Treatment Plant with renewable energy. In a major step towards North East Water’s ambitions to [...]
Water Minister’s Climate Innovation Challenge
The Water Minister’s Climate Innovation Challenge is currently in submission stage with submissions being accepted until 22 September 2023. In collaboration with the Minister for Water and [...]
WIOA appoints new CEO
The Water Industry Operators Association of Australia (WIOA), is delighted to announce the appointment of Dean Barnett as their new Chief Executive Officer. Dean commences in this [...]
Yarra Valley Water recognised for its Hybrid Work Strategy
Yarra Valley Water has been named an Excellence Awardee in the Best Remote Work Strategy category in the prestigious Australian HR Awards 2023. The awards, run by [...]
Water Minister’s Climate Innovation Challenge
Intelligent Water Networks is thrilled to announce the Hon Harriet Shing MLC, Minister for Water, has launched the Water Minister’s Climate Innovation Challenge. In collaboration with the [...]
A step in the right direction for working women
At Vision Super, we support measures to boost women’s retirement savings. Currently, women make up the majority of the part-time and casual workforce. Before 2022, many of [...]
Wadawurrung Traditional Owners secure funding
The Victorian Government has granted Wadawurrung Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation nearly $450,000 for works at Murrk Ngubitj Yarram Yaluk, the site of Barwon Water’s former Bellarine Basin, [...]
Successful operation of Wy Yung water tank paves the way for liner replacement works
Over the past few weeks, East Gippsland Water has been testing the operation of the new 36ML concrete water storage tank at our Wy Yung water storage [...]
Environmental Sensitivity Map
On World Environment Day (5 June), South East Water was proud to announce the development of an innovative tool created to identify environmental sensitivities to proactively protect [...]


