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Local Government (Water Services) Act 2025

Provision of water services: operational matters - Water services networks: connections - Obligations to publish water services network maps and capacity utilisation and asset details

158: Obligation to publish water services network maps and capacity utilisation and asset details

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"Water providers must publish maps and details of their water networks online"

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If you are a water service provider, you must prepare and publish a map of each of your water services networks. This map must show the location of each pipe and connection point in the network. You must also publish all the details you know about the capacity and assets of your water services networks. You have to do this no later than 4 years after this law comes into force. You must keep the published information up to date as much as possible.

You have to make sure the information is easy for people to access on the internet. You must publish it on a website that you or someone on your behalf maintains. This way, people can easily find the information they need about your water services networks.

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Water services networks: connections: Obligations to publish water services network maps and capacity utilisation and asset details

158Obligation to publish water services network maps and capacity utilisation and asset details

  1. A water service provider must, no later than 4 years after this section comes into force,—

  2. prepare and publish a map of each of its water services networks that shows the location of each pipe and connection point in the network; and
    1. publish all capacity utilisation and asset details known to the water service provider in relation to its water services networks.

      1. The provider must ensure that the published information is, at all times, as up to date as is practicable.

      2. The provider must publish the information on a publicly accessible internet site maintained by, or on behalf of, the provider.