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A Yarra Valley Water stall at a community festival in Melbourne. Yarra Valley Water is the largest of three Victorian Government owned retail water corporations that provides drinking water, sewerage, trade waste, recycled water, and water-saving services to over two million people and over 61,000 businesses in the northern and eastern suburbs of Melbourne, [1] or around 30% of Victoria's ...
The Upper Yarra Reservoir is located east of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, beyond Warburton within the locality of Reefton. Water from Upper Yarra Reservoir supplies towns in the upper Yarra Valley , and Silvan Reservoir , which transfers water to most parts of Melbourne.
In 1888 a large part of the upper Yarra valley was reserved for water supply purposes. [ 8 ] In 1891, the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works (MMBW) was a public utility board in Melbourne, set up to provide water supply , sewerage and sewage treatment functions for the city, and to create a piped sewerage system.
Melbourne Water supplies water to the metropolitan retail water businesses (namely, Great Western Water, South East Water and Yarra Valley Water [2]), other water authorities, local councils and the land development industry. [3] The Victorian Water Industry Association (VicWater) is the peak industry association for water companies in Victoria.
In Melbourne, Victoria, three government-owned companies (City West Water Ltd., South East Water Ltd., and Yarra Valley Water Ltd.) are the retailers and the wholesaler is a government-owned corporation, Melbourne Water. The wholesaler also controls the catchment for most of its supply.
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 ...
CUMBERLAND COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — The boil water advisory that was issued after a main break Monday evening in a part of Cumberland County has been lifted. Pennsylvania American Water customers in ...
At European arrival in 1835, Surveyor-General of the Colony of New South Wales John Helder Wedge of the Port Phillip Association visited the area with two Kulin People, who pointed at the flowing water and said yarra yarra, recorded in Wedge's notebook as the phrase yarrow yarrow, in the mistaken belief that this was the name for the river in ...