Melbourne Water - Infrastructure

Infrastructure

The water supply system operated and managed by Melbourne Water comprises:

• catchments covering more than 140,000 hectares.
• ten major storage reservoirs with a capacity of 1,810,500 megalitres.
• 64 service reservoirs that provide short-term storage.
• about 1300 kilometres of distribution mains and aqueducts.
• 18 water pumping stations, used to pump water from low lying areas to higher areas.
• five water filtration plants.
• 49 water treatment (disinfection) plants.