Sydney Water
- Investigation
- How To Poison a Planet
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
Latest
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
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
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
- Exclusive
- State Parliament
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
- Exclusive
- Food sustainability
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
- Exclusive
- Science
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
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