recycling 70 billion litres of wastewater a year by 2015.
Read our
fact sheet (PDF - 124KB)
on how we are assessing climate change with our risk assessment.
Sydney Water's
Climate Change Strategy (PDF - 824KB)
helps us prepare for the challenges ahead. It will ensure there are water
and wastewater services for our future.
Climate change is a challenge for us all. World climate scientists widely agree that human activity is causing
the climate to change and become less predictable.
A drier, warmer climate may:
reduce supplies of fresh water
increase customer demand for water
increase the risk of severe bushfires in water catchments, reducing the quality of water run-off
increase algal blooms in dams, with implications for taste, odour and toxicity
increase the risk of pipe corrosion and odours
cause more extreme storms that test the capacity of sewage treatment plants
cause sea levels and storm surges to increase, posing a flood risk to low-lying
coastal assets
change the structure and stability of soils, leading to greater risk of pipe failure
disrupt electricity supplies due to increased storm activity or excessive demand during heatwaves.