Our Urban Water Strategy identifies what we need to do to
ensure urban and industrial water availability in our region for the next 50
years.
Climate change, population growth and droughts put pressure
on our water systems. Through the Urban Water Strategy, we put plans in place
to respond to these challenges.
The strategy gives an overview of the capacity of our water supply
and wastewater systems now and into the future, compared with our expected
demand for these services. This allows us to identify if and when we’ll need to
take action to ensure the ongoing reliability of our water and wastewater
services.
The Urban Water Strategy takes a long term view with a
flexible approach, so it can be adapted to ensure we manage risks to service
delivery and take action at the right time. Any actions that are needed in the
next five years can be considered as part of our next
Price Submission.
We’ve started work on our next Urban Water Strategy. Check
out our
Let’s
talk webpage
for opportunities to get involved, or sign
up to our community newsletter
for updates.
The 2017 UWS was approved by our Gippsland Water Board on 24
March 2017.
Victorian water corporations,
like us, plan for local water needs through Urban Water Strategies, which are
renewed every five years. Our service area is part of the Central and Gippsland
Region Sustainable Water Strategy, which is managed by the Department of
Environment, Land, Water and Planning and renewed every 10 years. The
Sustainable Water Strategy considers issues at a regional scale, whereas our
Urban Water Strategy is at a local level.
Find out more about the strategies in place to secure water for the future across Victoria.
Gippsland Water supplies fresh clean drinking water to more than 70,000 customers, and wastewater services to more than 63,000 customers across an area of more than 5,000 square kilometres. It maintains a $1 billion infrastructure network, which includes more than 2,000 kilometres of water mains, 15 water treatment plants, over 1,700 kilometres of sewer mains and 14 wastewater treatment plants.
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Phone: 1800 050 500
Fax: (03) 5174 0103
Interpreter service: 1313 450
TTY: 1800 555 677
Email: contactus@gippswater.com.au