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April 2025
VicWater is a long-time sponsor of the Operator of the Year Award at the WIOA Vic Conference, and last week I had the pleasure of presenting this year’s award to Ben Evans, Waste Recycling Plant Lead Operator at South East Water. Ben has spent his entire career in the Victorian water sector, starting as a trainee with Pakenham Water Board in 1988.
April 2025
Carbon Offsets Project – The Project Oversight Committee held its first meeting on 17 April. At this meeting the committee was provided with an update on the project as well as the tasks required to enable the establishment of the SPV.
April 2025
Every morning, I make a cup of coffee then take some time to sit and read the news headlines. Sometimes, it leads to a quiet moment of reflection, other times it feels like it leads to incredulity from the ludicrous things that appear to have happened overnight.
AApril 2025
Hi Everyone! Welcome to the April IWN update.
We have a heap of news to share this month, new trials, new partnership opportunities, a launch and some trials concluding with outstanding results. Just click on the story of interest in the links at the end of my intro.
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Cyber protection and smishing
The ATO recently announced they will no longer send any hyperlinks in SMS communications to taxpayers, to help prevent people falling for phishing scams. This highlights the critical role [...]
Gippsland Water invests in Gippsland’s future
Gippsland Water is helping students kick start their careers locally with its annual Summer Internship Program. Applications are now open for the initiative, which is one [...]
Melbourne Water handles six Olympic swimming pools of contaminated water from chemical fire
The fallout from the Derrimut chemical fire continues as Melbourne Water has received and continues treating 12 million litres of contaminated firewater at its Western Treatment Plant (WTP): the [...]
Choose Tap’s Refiller program celebrates 250th cafe milestone
Yarra Valley Water is encouraging cafes to join the Refiller movement, offering free tap water refills to thirsty Melburnians - and do their bit to [...]
VicWater Annual Conference 2024 – Program Spotlight
Take a look at some of our program highlights that will feature at the Annual Conference this September. Corporate Sustainability Panel: Technical realism and organisational change [...]
VicWater Annual Conference 2024 – Spotlight on Dr Katrina Wruck
Dr. Katrina Wruck will present a high-level, digestible literature review on the latest advancements in PFAS removal and destruction from water and biosolids. Katrina's presentation will cover current adsorption and [...]
IWN Conference: Taking place this month on 29th July!
The IWN Members Conference is less than a month away. Registrations are filling fast - with over 130 delegates registered, so please register ASAP if you are intending to [...]
IWA Plenary Session & SIG Meetings – July 2024
Register now for the IWA Plenary Session and SIG Meetings this July. Thursday 18 July - online 9am - July Plenary Session 10am - July SIG Meetings [...]
Understanding IP insurance
Understanding IP insurance - And why it’s important to make sure you keep yours updated What is IP insurance? IP stands for ‘income protection’. Like the name suggests, if you [...]
Women in engineering lead the way at Melbourne Water
For International Women in Engineering Day on Sunday, 23 June, Melbourne Water showcases three women engineers making significant contributions to their industry. "An engineer is interested in a process [...]
Water industry partnership to reduce carbon emissions
Southern Rural Water and Wannon Water have joined forces to reduce carbon emissions in the Victorian water industry. Under the partnership agreement, Wannon Water will trade 3,000 Australian Carbon Credit Units [...]
Yarra Valley Water launches one of Australia’s first recycled water offset programs
Yarra Valley Water is partnering with major infrastructure delivery organisations to reduce the impact of using drinking water in construction through a new water offset program. A pilot is [...]


