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Meeting the water challenge

Melbournians are learning to live with less water. Long-term water shortages driven by population growth and climate change are forcing us all to look closely at how we can save water.

Consistent with the Victorian Government’s water conservation and recycling targets, City West Water are working closely with our industrial, commercial and institutional customers to help you use water more efficiently, substitute recycled water for drinking water, and reduce pollutants, such as salt and heavy metals, in trade waste to generate higher quality wastewater so that more water can be recycled. 

Victorian Government’s Mandatory Water Management Action Plan “waterMAP” Program

The waterMAP program announced by the government on 25 July 2007 seeks to improve the water efficiency of major water using commercial, industrial and institutional customers.  It is a mandatory program under the Permanent Water Saving Rules applicable to non-residential customers whose sites are using 10 million litres or more of potable (drinking) water per annum. 

For details of the waterMAP program click here.

Water Conservation Solutions Program – working with our commercial and institutional customers

The Water Conservation Solutions Program aims to work with you to save water, meet the requirements of the waterMAP program and for affected customers, meet the requirements of the Victorian Environment Protection Authority’s Environment and Resource Efficiency Plan (EREP) program and improve the efficiency of your business. 

For details of the Water Conservation Solutions Program click here.

Commercial advantage

For your business, water and resource efficiency can improve financial performance; help you meet environmental requirements and community expectations, as well as help improve your corporate reputation.

Some of our industrial, commercial and institutional customers are already enjoying the financial advantage and improved company profile associated with such efficiency.

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