Council’s leak detection team shows dogged determination

Central Coast Council has recruited a canine team trained by Sydney Water to sniff out leakages in its water and sewer network.

30 January, 2024

NSW to ban privatisation of water assets

The NSW government will introduce legislation to prevent Sydney Water and Hunter Water from being sold off.

8 May, 2023

Sydney Science Park tests smart waters

A waste water recycling plant being built in a smart city development in western Sydney will use digital twins to produce water on demand.

4 June, 2021

Sydney Water’s ‘greenprint’ for Western Sydney

The Western City Parkland City will be designed around future climate challenges.

28 September, 2020

DPIE, Sydney Water fail to deliver

DPIE and Sydney Water are failing on water conservation, an audit finds.

25 June, 2020

Sydney Water recruits sniff out wastewater leaks

Sydney Water’s latest recruits have been trained to sniff out leaks in the wastewater system.

1 June, 2020

Discovery could generate biofuel from wastewater

Scientists have discovered a high-tech filter used to purify water can also extract biogas.

14 October, 2019

Sydney Water’s anti-leak pipe dream

An acoustic system that can locate spy submarines is being adapted to test a leak detection system for Sydney’s water network.

26 March, 2019

O’Farrell turfs NSW Finance Minister over conflict of interest

By Paul Hemsley New South Wales Minister for Finance and Services and the Illawarra, Greg Pearce MLC, has finally been sacked by the state’s Premier Barry O’Farrell following a fresh revelation of a conflict of interest related to his Cabinet position. In an terse and unambiguously worded a statement issued unexpectedly late on Thursday afternoon, […]

2 August, 2013

NICTA called-in to plumb depths at Sydney Water

By Julian Bajkowski Top boffins at Australia’s government-funded information technology research and development lab, NICTA, have been called in to help fix notoriously leaky plumbing at state owned utility, Sydney Water. A statement released by the two organisations says that under a new agreement, NICTA’s machine learning capabilities will be applied to try and predict […]

13 February, 2013

Key providers named in $1.3 billion plumbing overhaul for Sydney Water

By Julian Bajkowski State owned utility Sydney Water has named the first tranche of successful tenders in its $1.3 billion infrastructure overhaul slated to run from 2013 to 2018. The waterworks provider said today that it has awarded $500 million worth of contracts to “manage and deliver asset renewals and new infrastructure works for its […]

21 December, 2012