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May 2025 VicWater Update
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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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Empowering Diversity and Inclusion: Mentoring Program to Foster Workplace Equality
The VicWater Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee is thrilled to share that the Australian Water Association (AWA) is connecting diverse talents with experienced mentors, providing guidance, support, [...]
2025 WIOA Victorian Water Industry Operations Conference and Exhibition
WIOA are gearing up for the 2025 Victorian Water Industry Operations Conference and Exhibition, set to take place over two days in Bendigo on the 2-3 April. [...]
Annual Conference 2025 – Save the date!
Save the date for the VicWater Annual Conference, which will take place from 9 - 11 September 2025 at the Park Hyatt Melbourne. We will be launching [...]
The red cliffs of Red Cliffs
As part of Lower Murray Water's (LMW), Seniors Week Morning Tea in late December 2024, LMW invited Bob and Helen Walton from the Red Cliffs Focus Group [...]
Clearwater Training – February 2025
Upcoming Clearwater training - Maintenance of WSUD Assets (street-scale systems) Sign up now for in-person training on Tuesday 25th February. Join expert facilitators Jamie Comley and Jason [...]
Boosting recycled water supply on the Bellarine
Construction at the Portarlington Water Reclamation Plant is now underway, with the works to help almost double the amount of recycled water being produced on the [...]
Romsey’s Water Filtration Plant to receive major upgrade
Construction has started this month to upgrade the Romsey Water Filtration Plant (WFP), with Greater Western Water (GWW) investing $27.8 million in a major project to improve [...]
More water and sewer upgrades to boost reliability in Gippsland
Gippsland Water is investing $2.8 million across its service area this financial year to enhance water and sewer system reliability. It is part of a $21.5 [...]
International day of People with Disability
WaterAble has amplified the leadership of persons with disability on International Day of People with Disability on 3 December.Because of WaterAble’s leadership program, for this International Day of People with [...]
WMCIC Award Ceremony
VicWater and IWN were thrilled to announce the funding recipients for the 2024 Water Minister's Climate Innovation Challenge at the awards ceremony on 5th December, recognising innovative solutions that [...]
Low Carbon Concrete Mix Specification Tool
Sustainable concrete alternatives reduce emissions and improve circularity Winners of the 2023 Water Minister’s Climate Innovation Challenge – Yarra Valley Water, Barwon Water and North East Water – have [...]
IWN Circular Economy Change Makers Tour
On 12th November 2024, the Intelligent Water Networks (IWN) Circular Economy Program facilitated the Circular Change Makers Tour, providing participants with the opportunity to explore practical applications of circular [...]


