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Sydney Water Managing Director Kerry Schott has announced a site has been acquired in Brookvale for a storage tank to be constructed as part of the Northern Beaches Storage Project.
The Northern Beaches Storage Project is part of a wider program to reduce the frequency of wet weather sewage overflows affecting waterways right across Sydney Water’s area of operations,” Dr Schott said
NSW Minister for Water Phil Costa is urging residents not to let unauthorised people into their
homes to install water efficient devices after reports of unauthorised showerhead sellers
approaching houses in Sydney.
Minister Costa said Sydney Water recently received seven complaints in the last two months
from residents about door-to-door salespeople wanting to enter their homes to install water
efficient showerheads
The first hydro-electric plant in Australia to generate power from treated sewage has been
switched on at North Head sewage treatment plant as part of a NSW plan to reduce gas
emissions and generate green energy
NSW Minister for Water, Phil Costa, welcomed today’s National Performance Report for Urban
Water Utilities which shows NSW is leading the way in urban water recycling
NSW Minister for Water, Phil Costa, congratulated Sydney Water for winning the 2010 Public
Water Agency of the Year Award at the Global Water Intelligence Conference in Paris
overnight.
Minister Costa said the prestigious award recognises the public sector organisation that has
made the greatest contribution to meeting the challenges of water supply during 2009
NSW Minister for Water and Member for Wollondilly, Phil Costa, today announced plans for the
proposed Appin Sewerage Scheme will be put on display next month.
Mr Costa said community information sessions on the proposed Appin Sewerage Scheme, part
of the NSW Government’s Priority Sewerage Program, will be held in mid-May
Sydney Water is investing in a $5.1 million upgrade to a section of Sydney’s oldest outfall sewer, the Bondi Ocean Outfall Sewer (BOOS).
The Water Infrastructure Group was awarded the contract to rehabilitate nearly a kilometre of the BOOS in Birriga Road, Bellevue Hill and Blair Street, North Bondi.
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While exhibitions and conferences across most business sectors of Europe, North America and South East Asia are struggling to recover from the effects of the global financial crisis, the Indian market is a far different situation
BRG Consult released a special edition of their monthly bathroom newsletter for the North American bathroom industry titled “Is There a Recovery Out There?” According to BRG all indications speak for a strong recovery in 2010. The following is an excerpt from the report written by Victor Post, the Vice President and Head of the Building Products Group for BRG Consult, with regard to the plumbing industry
The World Plumbing Council came to Australia in March to not only discuss the importance of World Plumbing Day, but to discuss global plumbing initiatives in the face of changing social attitudes
With the theme Plumbing-Vital to Global Health, plumbing organisations throughout the world undertook a range of activities – under the guise of World Plumbing Day – with the aim of raising awareness of the important role played by today’s plumbing industry
The first ever World Plumbing Day is to be celebrated on 11 March, 2010. worldplumbinginfo.com interviewed World Plumbing Council chairman, Robert Burgon to find out what it’s all about
Methane gas from Sydney’s Wollongong Sewage Treatment Plant is being converted to green energy using
state-of-the-art combustion technology.
Member for Wollongong Noreen Hay today switched on a new electricity-producing cogeneration engine
that will provide enough green energy to power over 20 per cent of the plant.
Minister for Water Phillip Costa today released an independent review of the recommendations of the 1998 Sydney Water Inquiry into the management of water quality in Sydney.
Mr Costa said the report demonstrates the NSW Government’s ongoing commitment to ensuring the water supplied to Australia’s largest city remains of the highest quality
Readers of worldplumbinginfo.com are invited to an afternoon of brief informative presentations and lively discussion with plumbing industry colleagues
On 12 January 2010, the small island nation of Haiti was rocked by an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.0. The tragedy brought to attention the poverty, lack of water and basic sanitation and desolation in which the people of this once popular nation reside.
The Premier Kristina Keneally today switched on Sydney’s state-of-the-art wind
powered Desalination Plant, providing water to meet up to 15 per cent of Sydney’s
water needs
Effective 15th January 2010, the NSW Government rebate for Solar, Heat Pump and 5 Star gas water heaters now is a flat $300 payment.
Our last newsletter for 2009. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
