NSW LWUs continuing to perform well

World Water Day was celebrated internationally in March with the theme of Water Cooperation. In Australia World Water Day was an opportunity to release the 2011-12 National Performance Reports for Urban and Rural Water Utilities.

The NSW Office of Water sent a copy of the Report to all 102 NSW LWUs for information and use. The Report is available on the NOW website. Key elements of the Report are:

• The Strong NSW pricing signals, p5
• Full cost recovery, p1
• ADWG 2011, p7
• Drinking Water Quality Compliance, p8
• Interstate comparisons, p15
• Best-Practice Management implementation, p19
• Example TBL Performance Report, p69
• Example Action Plan TBL Performance Report, p67
• Real water losses, p10
• The NSW ‘one stop shop’, p84

In March NOW also emailed copies of each Council's 2-page 2011-12 TBL Performance Reports and Action Plan templates to the Council’s General Manager for information. Please contact Graham Whyte on 8281 7432, Andrew Vaughan on 8281 7441 or Sam Samra on 8281 7435 to discuss any issues.