Lifting access covers is a strenuous, high-frequency task that utility field workers need to undertake, and is a significant contributor to serious injury and lost time. Icon Water has designed an innovative solution to the sector-wide problem.

Technological innovations, such as Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things, have opened up new opportunities for businesses to improve and optimise their operations, but the increase in connected and intelligent devices has exposed a number of vulnerabilities in the utility sector’s approach to cyber security.

Sydney Water’s Lower South Creek Treatment Program was awarded the highest design sustainability rating ever achieved for an Australian water infrastructure project by the Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia (ISCA).

South Australia’s principal electricity Transmission Network Service Provider (TNSP), ElectraNet, recently won Energy Networks Australia’s 2019 Industry Innovation Award for its Dalrymple Battery Energy Storage System (BESS).

Cameron FitzGerald, Managing Director at Southern Rural Water, discusses why it’s more important than ever for the rural and urban water sectors to work together.

Australia is actively investigating affordable, reliable low-carbon energy options. Achieving this requires solutions that go well beyond renewable electricity.