News Updates
United Utilities - Transfield Services sign LinkWater Operations and Maintenance Contract
16th April 2008
A new water system to provide drought relief through the transfer of bulk water across south east Queensland is a step closer following LinkWater's signing of an alliance agreement with United Utilities Australia and Transfield Services. read press release
Acciona Agua and United Utilities Australia to team for Desalination Contracts
11th July 2007
Two world-leading water companies have formed a partnership to bid for major seawater desalination contracts in Australia. read press release
Goldfields Water Supply Project - An Overview
5th July 2007
The desalination plant and associated infrastructure. The Project consists of a desalination plant, located adjacent to the port in Esperance, and a 385km pipeline to Kalgoorlie. read press release
Victor Harbor WWTP Wins National Engineering Excellence Award
9th January 2007
Victor Harbor’s new wastewater treatment plant has gained national recognition by taking out the Environmental Category at the 2006 National Engineering Excellence Awards as the best environmental project in Australia. read press release
United Utilities Australia commences negotiations
12th December 2006
United Utilities Australia is pleased to announce it has begun formal negotiations with the State Government in WA for a contract to supply water to the Goldfields and Esperance region. read press release
Engineering Excellence Awards - A winner for UUA
18th October 2006
United Utilities Australia, in association with South Australia’s government water utility SA Water, has won the 2006 South Australian Engineering Excellence Award with the Victor Harbor Wastewater Treatment and Reuse Project. read press release
UUA Consortium Nominated for Queensland Pipeline Project
30th July 2006
A joint venture involving United Utilities Australia and Transfield Services has been nominated as preferred proponent for the operations and maintenance of the proposed Southern Regional Water Pipeline (SRWP) in South Queensland. read press release
UUA joint venture to provide recycled water to a major Sydney oil refiner
28th June 2006
UUA in partnership with worldwide engineering consultants Worley Parsons has been awarded a high profile £3m contract to supply and operate an advanced water recycling facility that will provide process water to Sydney’s largest oil refinery, substantially reducing its daily intake of potable water. read press release
New Goldfields water a step closer
9th November 2005
United Utilities Australia today welcomed the report of the Economic Regulation Authority supporting its $400 million plan to build a desalination plant and pipeline to pump up to 37GL a year of fresh water to the Goldfields. read press release
Goldfields Esperance Water Supply Project
12th August 2005
At the request of the State Government, the Economic Regulation Authority (ERA) in Western Australia in inquiring into the cost of supplying bulk water to Kalgoorlie-Boulder. read press release
UUA promises $2.5b water project benefit to Goldfields
30th June 2005
The draft report of the Economic Regulation Authority released today fails to consider the estimated $2.5 billion regional economic benefit flowing from a proposal to double the water supply to the Goldfields. read press release
Water curtain for Wagner's Ring Cycle
5th November 2004
State Opera of South Australia today unveiled one of spectacular special effects from its forthcoming production of Wagner's Ring Cycle, a giant water curtain made possible by financial and technical support from United Utilities Australia. read press release
New Water New Growth
27th September 2004
United Utilities Australia today outlined a proposal to approximately double fresh water supplies for the Goldfields region by 2008 to a Parliamentary inquiry into water services in WA. read press release
Victor Harbor wastewater treatment plant contract
2nd March 2004
SA Water has entered into a contract with United Utilities Australia which will finance, design, construct and operate for 20 years, a new wastewater treatment plant for the town of Victor Harbor on the Fleurieu Peninsula, south of Adelaide. Project capital cost, including land acquisition and other costs met by SA Water, is approximately $40 million. The new plant will be at the forefront in Australia for the application of immersed membrane bio reactor technology in municipal wastewater treatment. This technology can remove micro-organisms down to the size of viruses and Phosphorus discharge will be reduced by 99% compared with the discharge from the existing plant, which was commissioned in 1972. read press release
Wastewater agreement for McLaren Vale-Willunga
4th July 2003
Up to 3 million litres of effluent from local septic tanks will daily be converted into usable water under an innovative partnership to be announced next week by the City of Onkaparinga and United Utilities Australia. Under the partnership, UUA will complete a new sewage plant at Willunga early next year and operate and manage the city’s STEDS (septic tank effluent disposal scheme) until 2028. UUA will also manage the city’s septic tank de-sludging program and STEDS capital works program. read press release
New Coliban service a winner for customers
1st June 2003
From July 1, 2003 United Utilities Australia will be involved in the country’s most encompassing water outsourcing contract following the signing of an agreement with Victorian regional authority Coliban Water. Under a 10 year contract, commencing on that date, Campaspe Asset Management (CAMS), an equal joint venture between United Utilities and Origin Energy Asset Management, will carry out field services, water and wastewater treatment, IT, revenue, operations and maintenance, technical and laboratory services. The term may be extended for a further five years. The joint venture will also participate in developing Coliban Water’s capital works program throughout the contract period. read press release
Indian contract for United Utilities Australia
28th March 2003
The water treatment plant design that provides high quality filtered River Murray water to more than 150,000 regional South Australians has been adopted for a new water treatment facility in India. Adelaide-headquartered United Utilities Australia, the lead company in Riverland Water, which financed, designed, built and operates water treatment plants along the Murray from Renmark to Tailem Bend is providing design input and other services for the new facility, located at Tirupur in the state of Tamil Nadu, southern India. read press release