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July 2025
One of the things that most impressed me about the Victorian water sector when I joined VicWater back in 2019, was the strong commitment to gender equity and improving the representation of women in a traditionally male-dominated industry.
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July 2025
Carbon Offsets Project
On 2 July the ACCC published the outcome of its considerations on both the interim authorisation and the substantive application for the proposed collective ACCU procurement approach. The ACCC has granted the interim authorisation to enable VicWater and the participating water corporations to:
- issue RFPs in relation to proposed collective projects and acquisitions of ACCUs, and
- share information and engage in discussions for the purposes of, and reasonably necessary for undertaking, the RFP process.
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July 2025
One of the programs that I look after is WaterAble, which is a network for people with disability (and neurodiverse individuals) and their allies in the water sector. In 2023 WaterAble became a program of VicWater, and since then it has continued to evolve.
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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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