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Greater Western Water (GWW) is a water services corporation in the state of Victoria in Australia. It is owned by the Victorian Government and was formed on 1 July 2021 [ 2 ] by bringing together Western Water [ 3 ] and City West Water .
In 2008, Melbourne Water commenced work on the North South Pipeline from northern Victoria's Eildon and Goulburn Valley area to Melbourne. Another project to avert a water shortage in Melbourne was the Victorian Desalination Plant at Wonthaggi , south-east of Melbourne, which was completed in December 2012.
Sooke Lake is a natural lake and the main reservoir of Greater Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. It is owned and operated by the Capital Regional District and supplies water to approximately 350,000 people. [2] It has a usable water supply of 92.7 million cubic meters, of a total of 160.32 million cubic meters. [2]
When it came into operation in 2004, it was the largest such plant in North America. In 1996, the now vastly expanded water supply system was transferred from the Greater Victoria Water District to the Capital Regional District. In 2002, Sooke Dam was raised once again, creating a total system capacity of 95,000,000,000 litres (3.4 × 10 9 cu ...
Yan Yean Reservoir is the oldest water supply for the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. [1] At the time of its completion in 1857 it was the largest artificial reservoir in the world. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of the city within the eponymous locality of Yan Yean , and is built on the Plenty River , a tributary of the ...
The Glenmaggie Dam is a concrete block-foundation gravity dam with 14 radial arm gates across the Macalister River, located near Maffra, Central Gippsland, in the Australian state of Victoria. The dam's purpose includes irrigation, the generation of hydro-electric power, water supply and conservation.
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Construction of the dam was commissioned by the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission of Victoria for the irrigation of the Western Goulburn Valley. At the time of construction, the Waranga Basin embankment was described as the largest project of its sort in the world with an embankment height of 8.8 metres (29 ft) and length of 7 kilometres ...