Learn about water
Water is an essential part of life, yet we often use it without thinking about where it comes from.
How can we help you today?
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Where does my water come from?
A large proportion of your drinking water comes from catchments in protected or uninhabited mountain ash forests high in the Yarra Ranges which are reserved for harvesting water.
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Water quality
Learn how your drinking water is managed and monitored to make sure it meets strict regulations and is of the highest quality. Use our updated water quality checker tool to look up water quality in your area.
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Sewerage
As well as delivering safe, clean and reliable water to you, it’s also our job to take it away once it's used.
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Water Education site
Water literacy gives everyone a chance to understand the water cycle and the challenges we face.
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Treating recycled water
Recycled water has been used for a range of non-drinking purposes around the world for several decades. Its use grew quickly in Australia during the Millennium Drought from 2000 to 2009.
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Recycled water
Reducing demand on our drinking water supplies. We produced 8.5 billion litres of recycled water last year.
