Hydration Station

We’re thrilled to support our community by providing free drinking water at events across the south east through our hydration station program.

Through the program, community events that meet the criteria may be eligible to have us provide the hydration station for free. We have a limited budget each year and dates can get booked out quickly; as much as we’d love to, we’re unable to support every request.

Our hydration stations are now fully booked for events in 2024-25. If you’d like to go on our cancellation list, please email hydrationstations@sew.com.au with all your event details.

We’ll be taking expressions of interest for events in 2025-26 from July 2025. We’ll begin confirming bookings from August 2025.

Hydration stations provide a sustainable solution to keeping everyone hydrated at events by reducing single use plastic bottles and saving thousands of them from ending up in landfill and oceans.

Since October 2022 we've provided free drinking water to 114 community events, 51,814 litres consumed and 101,231 600ml plastic bottled saved from landfill/oceans.

Do we need to pay to use the hydration station?

•  All not-for-profit events that meet our criteria will be considered for sponsorship – so we’ll cover the cost for you.
• Community events that don’t meet our criteria for sponsorship or if sponsorship isn’t available will be charged a hire fee. 

Criteria for use

Before enquiring about use the hydration station or monster bar please check your event meets these criteria:

·       located within South East Water’s service region

·       runs for five hours or more

·       typically, the hydration station trailer is reserved for events expecting 1,000 or more attendees and the monster bar for events expecting 750 or more

·       has a drinking water mains tap connection

·       must be housed on flat, solid ground with sufficient drainage area

·       If an entry fee is charged, does it support a local charity or community organisation?

·       isn’t aligned to a political party or lobby group

·       doesn’t discriminate against any person(s), organisation(s) or group(s)

·       doesn’t have products or services that are harmful to the environment

·       doesn’t support foreign charities

·       doesn’t create environmental hazards

·       doesn’t increase the likelihood of damage occurring to the hydration station.

1.  We’ll assess all applications for the use of a hydration station on a case-by-case basis and against the above criteria.

2 .  Events that don’t meet the criteria may be charged a hire fee, which covers delivery, setup and dismantling costs. Please contact us for more details and hire fees.

3.  As part of free use of a hydration station, we ask that we receive promotional opportunities for South East Water, which may include signage, social media, flyers and newsletters, along with photographs of our hydration station at the event.

4. If your event has used the hydration station before, we’ll assess your expression of interest using information and knowledge from working with you on the previous event/s such as how much water was used, location, number of attendees, communication, promotional opportunities provided and whether photographs were supplied.

Please contact our hydration station team if you’re unsure about any of the above