Bulk water
View prices for the supply, treatment and transfer of drinking water to Melbourne’s retail water companies and other non-metropolitan water businesses.
View prices for the supply, treatment and transfer of drinking water to Melbourne’s retail water companies and other non-metropolitan water businesses.
This series of activities explores the journey of stormwater and its impact on rivers, creeks and bays.
Explore the link between turbidity (a measure of water clarity) and erosion, and the impact on freshwater organisms.
We charge Melbourne’s three retail water businesses to remove, treat and dispose of the sewage and trade waste we collect from them.
Discover the historic development of Melbourne’s sewerage system, and the land's importance to Traditional Owners and the urban water cycle.
Investigate stormwater processes in your local catchment and how it is managed in Melbourne, including Water Sensitive Urban Design practices.
These activities explore the different ways waterbugs (macroinvertebrates) obtain their oxygen; students also can identify waterbugs in a sample and draw conclusions about the health of the waterway from the sensitivities of the waterbugs found.
Focus on bacteria in the sewage treatment process, the effect of aerating water on oxygen, how gravity transports sewage, and chemicals contained in laundry powders and detergents.
View prices for diverting water from regulated and unregulated waterways, and harvesting stormwater from a waterway, drain, channel or asset controlled by Melbourne Water.
Focus on sewage treatment at the Western Treatment Plant: the role of sewerage and key processes, benefits of biogas, nitrogen cycle, and dissolved oxygen and aquatic ecosystems.