Disaster Management

Updates 7 May Two more water utilities join national ColoSSoS project Central Highlands Water and Goulburn Valley Water have joined...

Australia and the US have signed a landmark deal, allowing Australia to lease space in the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve...

Western Australia Minister for Water, Dave Kelly, has declared a water deficiency for Salmon Gums in the shire of Esperance,...

The South Australian Government and local battery manufacturer sonnen will offer each householder who rebuilds their home after the bushfires...

Water deficiency has been officially declared in Dumbleyung and Kent in the Great Southern and Wheatbelt regions, Western Australia, after...

Precautionary measures taken by WaterNSW in response to unprecedented bushfire damage and the largest rainfall event since 1990 have enabled...

Water quality experts at WaterNSW have been working to maintain water quality in Sydney’s largest catchment after significant amounts of...

The NSW Government has repealed temporary irrigation restrictions made for the Bega and Brogo Regulated Rivers due to heavy rainfall...

According to the Clean Energy Council (CEC), regulatory reforms for microgrids and standalone power systems need to be fast-tracked to...

Water Corporation is having to cart water to town tanks, standpipes and other storages to Western Australian communities impacted by little to...

As part of a partnership with state-owned utilities Energy Queensland and Powerlink, State Emergency Service (SES) volunteers in the North...

Seqwater’s Canungra Water Treatment Plant in Queensland has returned to normal operations following recent rainfall. Now that the Canungra Creek...

By Kate Crawford, Paul Reed and Roshni Sharma, Locate20 Organising Committee Communication is vital to keep communities affected by bushfires...

AusNet Services will support customers affected by bushfires in Gippsland and the Upper Murray regions by putting in place special...

A potential pipeline could be delivering water to Queensland’s Southern Downs and Granite Belt by the end of 2020 as...

Water use across Greater Sydney has fallen on average by 10 per cent following an eight-month marketing campaign by Sydney...

The ACT Government and Icon Water will provide temporary water relief to Braidwood, NSW, after its water supply dried-up due...

SA Water’s Middle River Water Treatment Plant on Kangaroo Island is back to supplying around 1,500 customers on the Parndana...

East Gippsland Water will receive three of Western Water’s ‘Siltbuster’ clarifier machines, designed to remove sediment from water, to assist...

EnergyAustralia will aid communities and customers affected by bushfires through a package of measures aimed to provide immediate relief and...

WaterNSW has expanded preparations to limit potential impacts on the water quality in dam storages as rain is forecast across...

Powercor has received a reduction of $21 million from the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) on the amount its customers will...

After the catastrophic fires of Friday 20 December and Friday 3 January – the largest of which have been at...

South East Water will provide emergency water relief on behalf of the Victorian water industry to residents without drinking and...

Essential Energy has been working since 1 January to restore power to more than 37,000 customers left without power following...

The Middle River Water Treatment Plant on Kangaroo Island, which supplies more than 1,500 customers, has been rendered temporarily inoperable...

WaterNSW is to transfer water from Windamere to Burrendong dam via the Cudgegong River to secure vital supply in the...

AGL will contribute $200,000 to the Gippsland Emergency Relief Fund (GERF) to provide immediate financial assistance to those impacted by...

Hundreds of Essential Energy’s power poles and associated electrical infrastructure in south-east NSW have been damaged due to bushfires and...

SA Water has asked Kangaroo Island residents and visitors to limit the use of non-essential drinking water to preserve water...