Thank you for your feedback

The Water2WATER consultation process closed on 22 June 2007. During these three months, ACTEW received extensive feedback regarding the proposal to supplement Canberra's water supply by purifying Canberra's used water and adding this to the Cotter reservoir, which would also be enlarged. This was the Water2WATER proposal.

Over 3,700 direct contacts have been made with the project. You have participated via:

the roaming Water2WATER information display
over 40 community group and stakeholder briefings
online and phone surveys
written and verbal submissions
community forums
feedback forms
the media
calls to the project office, and
ACTEW’s Water2WATER website.

Where to from here?

Fact sheet available here.

In July 2007, ACTEW completed a detailed review of the ACT and region’s water supply and submitted four key water security recommendations to the ACT Government.

To immediately commence the detailed planning and design of an enlarged Cotter Dam from its current capacity of 4 gigalitres (GL) to 78 GL (approx $145M);
To add to the current capacity to extract water from the Murrumbidgee River by working towards constructing pumping capacity near Angle Crossing for transfer to the Googong Reservoir (approx $70M). This project could also be used to transfer additional flows released from Tantangara Dam if such flows become available.
To obtain additional water from a source not largely dependent on rainfall within ACT catchments through either:

the Tantangara Transfer option (approx $38M); or
the Water Purification Scheme (approx $181-274M).

To assess how any additional energy used may be offset through measures such as carbon offsets (such as planting of trees) or renewable energy capacity.

Included with the recommendations is a report on the outcomes of the community consultation conducted on Water2WATER (summary of report available here). Water2WATER was ACTEW’s proposal in early 2007 to supplement the ACT’s water supply by purifying Canberra’s used water (Water Purification Scheme) and adding this to the Cotter Dam which would also be enlarged.

In addition, an independent Expert Panel on Health has provided its advice to the ACT Government on the health aspects of the proposal.

More than 30 reports support the four recommendations and are available here.