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Goals related to water

  • Ensure stringent regulatory obligations are met
  • Develop and implement efficient capital investment and operations programs
  • Protect and conserve Melbourne’s existing water resources
  • Protect our water supply catchments from bushfire
  • Increase water resource efficiency
  • Supply high quality and reliable drinking water.

Key achievements

  • Maintaining high water quality despite low reservoir levels due to the drought
  • Developing and implementing contingency actions with the Victorian Government and the retail water businesses to maintain Melbourne’s water supply during extreme drought conditions
  • Working with Yarra Valley Water and City West Water to clean the Winneke-Preston water main without impacting on the supply of water to consumers
  • Keeping bushfires out of our water catchments.

Disappointment

  • Issuing a boil water notice to Yarra Valley townships due to a storm event in June creating the potential for the treatment process at the Upper Yarra catchment to be affected by turbidity.

Challenges

  • Continuing to manage the water supply system to ensure a reliable, high quality supply regardless of the impacts of below average rainfall and climate change
  • Undertaking the detailed planning and delivery for the major augmentation projects announced by the Victorian Government in the next stage of its Our Water, Our Future Water Plan.