Drinking Water Quality

Council has continued our commitment to water saving with the recruitment of a Water Resilience Officer in early 2021, installation of smart water meters, leakage reduction and education.

In order to meet our commitment to support business and institutional customers, the Water Resilience Officer has been working with some of Council’s largest water users including several caravan parks to promote a shift in the way water is valued and used. Smart meters were identified as an effective tool for reducing water use and they have been installed at the sites of selected large users at no cost to the customer to reduce water loss and give customers greater control over their water use. The smart meters provide early leak detection to customers through detection of abnormal use followed up with an email or text alert. Several large leaks have already been identified and fixed in the first half of 2021 with an estimated 26 million litres of water being saved.

We continue to supply safe drinking water to our customers in line with the Australian Drinking Water Guidelines. Drinking water is regulated by NSW Health. The following graph shows water quality results within Australian Drinking Water Guidelines over the past five years.

Figure 10: Drinking water quality