Water Saving

Conditions of Connection for Fire Sprinkler Systems

South East Water - On Tap NewsletterSouth East Water recently proposed changes to its 'Conditions of Connection' for new Fire Sprinkler Installations.

Projects which commence design phase from March 1, 2008 will now need to meet the following requirements to when seeking to connect to South East Water;

waterMAP - Water saving initiatives for fire services

In October 2003 a voluntary program between Melbourne’s top 200 non-residential water consumers and their respective water authorities was launched called “Pathways to Sustainability”. This program was designed to develop water management plans with significant water using customers. Given the success of the program (which saved 6.2 billion litres of water or greater than 13% of sector usage), the Victorian Government has committed to its expansion. This will now affect all Victorian non-residential customer sites which consume 10 million litres of potable (drinking quality) water or more at any one site from an urban supply.