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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 ...
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.
Across Australia, the average typical annual residential bill for water supply and sewerage services was A$713 in 2007 (US$557 using the January 2007 exchange rate of 1.28). [2] In South East Queensland the average annual water bill of only A$465 in 2005, but that it could increase to A$1,346 by 2017 due to increasing bulk water costs. [36]
Upper Yarra Reservoir is also supplied by water transferred from the Thomson River Dam. [8] As of January 2007, severe drought in south-eastern Australia had resulted in low water levels in the reservoir, which on 5 January 2007 was approximately half full. As of 22 July 2013, it contained 95,568 megalitres of water(47.6% full). [9]
The Shire of Cardinia is a local government area in Victoria, Australia, in the south-east of Melbourne between Western Port and the Yarra Ranges on the outskirts of Melbourne. It has an area of 1,283 square kilometres, and had a population of 107,120 in June 2018.
Their service area covers the local government areas (LGAs) of Brimbank, Hobsons Bay, Maribyrnong, Melton, Moonee Valley, Wyndham and Yarra, and partially covers the LGAs of Hume, Macedon Ranges, Melbourne and Moorabool. Greater Western Water is subject to price control regulation administered by the Essential Services Commission (Victoria).
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 ...
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.