Shane Richards

Southern Rural Water

We supply water to irrigators, power generators, and urban water corporations and we work with the Victorian Environmental Water Holder alongside catchment management authorities and Melbourne Water to manage the release of environmental flows. We service customers across 88,000 square kilometres, or 37% of the state, stretching from the South Australian border to the New South Wales border, and from the Great Dividing Range to the Victorian coastline. We operate seven major dams, eight diversion weirs, and three irrigation districts and we manage take and use licences for waterways, licences relating to catchment dams, and farm dam registration. We recognise the important role we play as stewards of water resources, ensuring that we manage them sustainably for the long term. We are proud to be the lifeblood of the agricultural economy of southern Victoria. Our services support a food and fibre sector that contributes more than $17.5 billion to the economy each year. With approximately $1.85 billion in assets, we deliver water from catchment to farm gate, businesses and industry and employ 160 people. We have business centres located in Maffra, Werribee and Warnambool, and have smaller offices scattered across our regions, ensuring we remain closely connected to our customers across our whole service area.