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Water industry experts say boil water notices could become common if a price decision means Sydney Water cannot invest in infrastructure upgrades. NSW Premier Chris Minns wrote to IPART in August urging it to make “cost-of-living impacts” a first-order consideration in raising water bills.

Pay more for your water or boil it? The unpalatable choice behind Sydney’s water woes

Sydneysiders narrowly avoided having to boil their drinking water in 2021. After a draft bill increase was slashed, some are warning it could become common.

  • Penry Buckley and Max Maddison

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Water Minister Rose Jackson said the state can’t tackle the affordability crisis without dealing with anemic housing supply.

Sydneysiders were facing a 50 per cent water bill hike. That’s now been halved

Sydney Water had called for the increase to pay for much-needed infrastructure upgrades but the pricing regulator has limited the spike.

  • Max Maddison
The state government says its agencies must be held to account to ensure there are no delays to housing approvals.

Revealed: The state agencies holding up new housing in NSW

Councils are publicly named and shamed over the time they take to approve housing developments. Now it is the government’s turn. 

  • Alexandra Smith
University of Sydney Professor Stuart Khan says consumer goods should be tested for PFAS residues.

Your home is full of these chemicals. Your tap water provider wants them banned

The nation’s drinking water providers have called on Australia to ban chemicals found in around 900 household products.

  • Carrie Fellner
Black balls washed ashore at Gordons Bay in Sydney in October 2024.

Sydney’s ‘unusual’ sewage system and the beach grime ball invasion

Sydney’s pumping of primary-treated effluent into the ocean makes us out of step with the rest of the world, a water engineering expert said.

  • Angus Dalton
Jane Hester stands outside a huge flow of water on Malvern Avenue, Manly. It has been getting worse for nearly a fortnight.

No one wanted to fix this broken pipe outside Jane’s home – but now there’s some good news

Sydney Water and Northern Beaches Council both said it was not a matter for them, but there has been a major development.

  • Anthony Segaert
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Bill shock as Sydney residents asked to pay 50 per cent more for water

Sydney Water says it needs money to invest in infrastructure as the city grapples with a quickly growing population.

  • Anthony Segaert
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Private education knows how to make an entrance

But no apple for these teachers.

Roch Cheroux

Water fight gets dirty as boss ‘lumps union sites with gambling, porn’

A Sydney Water industrial dispute has intensified as the union calls for its managing director to be sacked, claiming he banned employees from viewing union websites.

  • Max Maddison and Michael McGowan
North Head Water Resource Recovery Facility

How sewage from a million Sydneysiders helps grow the wheat we eat

Sydney Water is appealing for farms on the outskirts of the city to consider using fertiliser from human waste, called biosolids, to grow food.

  • Angus Dalton

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