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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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Clearwater Training
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Central Highlands Water welcomes First Nations appointment to Board
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UV upgrade at water filtration plant shines a light for Myrniong
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New underground water pipeline provides TAFE students with hands-on learning experience
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Moe water supply protected with riverbank planting
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Wet weather storage upgrade for Boneo
South East Water is upgrading an existing wastewater lagoon at the Boneo Water Recycling Plant to manage increased flows during wet weather events. The new emergency storage lagoon will [...]
IWN Hackathon – 20 September 2024
In a first for the Victorian Water Industry, IWN will be conducting a Data and Analytics Hackathon with the problem statement – “How might we use data and analytics [...]
Barwon Water welcomes funding for the Oxygen for Wastewater Project
Barwon Water welcomed $3 million funding announcement on 18 July from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to support an innovative project to use pure oxygen to make wastewater [...]
Applications for the 2025 Peter Cullen Trust Leadership Program are now open
Applications for the 2025 Peter Cullen Trust Leadership Program are now open The Peter Cullen Trust Leadership Program is a unique and transformative program fostering courageous [...]
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 [...]


