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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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THE PEOPLE SUMMIT – Leaders of the future panel
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WIOA Events this March
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Water Entity Board Appointments
Apply to board roles for water entities, starting in October 2023. DEECA have opened expressions of interest for board appointments to Victorian Water Corporations, Catchment Management Authorities [...]
Understanding superannuation
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GWW Sewer upgrade for Melbourne CBD
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How SRW help everyone share water fairly
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IWA Plenary Session & SIG Meetings – 16 March
Please join IWA for the next Plenary Session and Special Interest Group Meetings, which will be running online. Commencing with the Plenary Session at 9am followed by [...]
SRW balancing water supply with community safety
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Greater Western Water helps create thriving communities
Following the launch of Thriving Communities, Greater Western Water’s (GWW) community grants and sponsorship program, 16 local organisations have received funding to help make their projects a [...]
Yarra Valley Water wins international customer service award
Yarra Valley Water has won the 2022 International Service Excellence Awards in the Service Excellence in a Service Centre (Medium) category. The coveted award, presented by the [...]
VicWater join Pride in Water at Midsumma Pride march
What a wonderful day VicWater had at the Midsumma Pride March on Sunday 5th February! It was a pleasure to be there celebrating diversity and supporting the [...]
New IWN Program Director
Jason Cotton has been appointed the new Intelligent Water Networks (IWN) Program Director. Jason is no stranger to IWN and has been part of the IWN family [...]


