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The Community Rebate Program offers water audits and water efficiency upgrades to households in vulnerable and hardship situations, and community housing properties owned or managed by not-for-profit and community welfare organisations.

SA Water has worked with businesses across South Australia to install smart meters for the purpose of helping them better manage their water use.

The Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards (WELS) scheme is a national scheme to help Australians save water in their homes. WELS reduces demand for drinking water by informing consumers about water efficiency at the point of sale.

Using their own land, South East Water has teamed up with Villawood Properties on a unique residential development collaboration. Built on a former wastewater treatment plant site, Aquarevo will be the most water and energy efficient residential community in Australia. Residents will enjoy the benefits of smart design and leading edge, intelligent water solutions.

It’s been described as award winning, cost effective and cutting edge. When Mackay Regional Council in North Queensland introduced smart metering, it was to help slow investment demands. However, they also found that it changed their community’s culture of water use with 'myh2o.'

Almost 50,000 customer water meters have been checked for signs of on-lot leaks in Darwin, Katherine and Alice Springs saving over a billion litres of water

Hunter Water’s Love Water campaign encourages customers to work with the utility and wider community to reduce water consumption. Customers in the Hunter Water region are using on average 191 litres per day, however this could be reduced by 10%.

The Water Security program is Seqwater’s plan for providing the region’s drinking water over the next 30 years, including during times of drought and flood. In 2017, Seqwater released version 2 of the Water Security Program, which includes a revised Drought Response Plan. The plan introduces a drought readiness phase to help better prepare the region for the prospect of drought.

The Building Sustainability Index (BASIX) is one of the strongest sustainable planning measures to ever be undertaken in Australia.