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City West Water Limited sustainability covenant

‘City West Water’s statutory pledge to deliver water to its customers with zero net greenhouse emissions is an Australian first, and clearly demonstrates the commercial viability of carbon neutral strategies.’ . John Thwaites, former Minister for Climate Change, Water and the Environment.

City West Water Limited and EPA Victoria entered their second Sustainability Covenant on 26 March 2007. This Covenant is a voluntary statutory agreement between the organisations, under section 49AA of the Environment Protection Act 1970.

City West Water is one of the three retail water companies servicing metropolitan Melbourne. City West Water provides drinking water, sewerage, trade waste and recycled water services to approximately 276,000 residential and 31,300 industrial and commercial customers in Melbourne’s Central Business District and inner and western suburbs. City West Water's boundaries contain the local government areas of Brimbank, Hobsons Bay, Maribyrnong, Melbourne (north of the Yarra River), Moonee Valley, Wyndham, Yarra and parts of Melton and Hume.

City West Water’s vision is to be a truly sustainable water business. For City West Water, sustainability means balancing social, environmental and economic responsibilities. In a local context, the potential impact of climate change could result in less water being available from Melbourne’s existing water supplies as a result of the impacts of climate change. City West Water recognises that it cannot solve climate change itself due to the size and scale of this issue. Hence, City West Water commits to constructively working with a range of partners including its residential and commercial customers, EPA Victoria, Sustainability Victoria, Department of Sustainability and Environment and the local, national and international water industry to reduce the impact of climate change.

This Covenant is an agreement between City West Water and EPA to work together, until 30 June 2008, to assist City West Water to become greenhouse gas neutral, with a primary focus on waste hierarchy principles and to share information on the implementation of greenhouse gas neutral programs.

More Information

Public reporting of covenant progress will be published in City West Water’s Sustainability Report. Links to this will be provided on City West Water and EPA’s websites.

The Authority authorises the copying of all or any part of the Covenant by any person who wishes to do so and also authorises the use by such a person of any copies made by the person.

For further information contact:

EPA Victoria
40 City Road
Southbank Victoria 3006
Telephone: (03) 9695 2722
Send an email

City West Water Limited
Locked Bag 350
Sunshine Victoria 3020
Telephone: (03) 9313 8422
www.citywestwater.com.au

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