City West Water

{{short description|Water company in Australia}}{{notability|Organizations|date=March 2019}} {{Infobox government agency | agency_name = City West Water | logo = | logo_width = | logo_caption = | formed = 1 January 1995 | preceding1 = [[Melbourne Water]] | preceding2 = [[Melbourne & Metropolitan Board of Works]] | dissolved = 30 June 2021 | superseding = [[Greater Western Water]] | jurisdiction = [[Government of Victoria]] | headquarters = [[Footscray, Victoria]], Australia | employees = Over 400 | budget = | minister1_name = [[Lisa Neville]] | minister1_pfo = Minister for Water | chief1_name = Maree Lang | chief1_position = Managing Director | parent_agency = | child1_agency = | website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20210306052648/https://www.citywestwater.com.au/ www.citywestwater.com.au]}}

'''City West Water Corporation''' was a [[Government of Victoria]] retail water corporation that provided drinking water, sewerage, trade waste and recycled water services in the [[Melbourne central business district]], inner and western suburbs.<ref name=CWW/> The service area included the local government areas of [[City of Brimbank|Brimbank]], Hobsons Bay, [[City of Maribyrnong|Maribyrnong]], [[City of Melbourne|Melbourne]] (north of the Yarra River), [[City of Moonee Valley|Moonee Valley]], [[City of Wyndham|Wyndham]], [[City of Yarra|Yarra]] and parts of [[City of Melton|Melton]] and [[City of Hume|Hume]].<ref name="CWW" />

The water distributed by City West Water was supplied by [[Melbourne Water]] and primarily sourced from Melbourne Water's water supply catchments in the upper reaches of the [[Yarra River]] and the [[Thomson River (Victoria)|Thomson River]], as well as the [[Victorian Desalination Plant]]. The majority of the sewage collected by City West Water was transferred to Melbourne Water for treatment at its [[Western Treatment Plant]]. A portion of sewage collected by City West Water was treated at City West Water's own [[Altona Treatment Plant]].

The main office of City West Water was located in [[Footscray, Victoria|Footscray]].<ref name=CWW>{{cite web|title=City West Water website and information|access-date=2012-01-31 |url=http://www.citywestwater.com.au/}}</ref> Oversight was provided by a board of directors appointed by the Minister for Water under the ''Water Act 1989 (Vic.).'' On 1 July 2021, City West Water Corporation merged with the neighbouring Western Region Water Corporation to form Greater Western Water.<ref>{{Cite web|title=New Water Entity To Support Melbourne's Growing West {{!}} Premier of Victoria|url=http://www.premier.vic.gov.au/new-water-entity-support-melbournes-growing-west|access-date=2021-12-04|website=www.premier.vic.gov.au|language=en}}</ref> The merger was effected by a determination of the Victorian Minister for Water under provisions of the ''Water Act 1989 (Vic.).''

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[[Category:Water companies of Victoria (state)]] [[Category:Defunct government-owned companies of Victoria (state)]] [[Category:Companies based in Melbourne]] [[Category:1995 establishments in Australia]] [[Category:2021 disestablishments in Australia]]