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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

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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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Water bills to cover price for not keeping up with Sydney development

Sydney Water’s proposed 50 per cent hike in water rates is too big an ask.

  • The Herald's View
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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.

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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
A $1.5 wastewater treatment trial using freshwater weed in Picton.

The $1.5 million trial aiming to purify NSW’s sewage water

Macroalgae is being used by Sydney Water as a way to cleanse the sewage water in NSW.

  • Angus Dalton
The Sydney Water Innovation Festival is back – tackling big challenges, judging the best new tech, and providing a few laughs, too.

Inside SWIF22: Sydney’s must-attend event

The Sydney Water Innovation Festival is back – tackling big challenges, judging the best new tech, and providing a few laughs, too.

  • Simon Webster

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