Sustainability Report 2006/07

Water

Supply high quality and reliable drinking water
Protect and conserve Melbourne’s existing water resources
Protect our water supply catchments from bushfire
Develop new and alternative water resources to diversify and secure supplies for current and future customers
Increase water resource efficiency
Develop and implement efficient capital investment and operations programs
Ensure stringent regulatory obligations are met Water Overview

With our alliance partners, completed preliminary construction work on a treatment plant at Tarago Reservoir, which will supply 15,000 million litres of water to Melbourne by mid-2009
Completed investigations into the Sugarloaf Pipeline corridor, paving the way for construction activities
Developed and provided drinking water quality standards to the Government to support the desalination project design
Construction works are on schedule for a new water main in St Albans, which will service expanding areas west of Melbourne
Constructed five small filtration plants to ensure safe water supply to Upper Yarra communities

Securing Melbourne’s water future by delivering major capital works on time and budget using alliance partnerships
Monitoring and modelling climate patterns to ensure we are flexible in meeting Melbourne’s water needs and in touch with customer needs
Continuing to plan and cater for future growth, particularly in Melbourne’s west
Securing non-rainfall dependent sources of water given the strong possibility that low inflows will continue
Carefully managing and conserving existing water reserves until new sources progressively come on line