An integral part of providing efficient water and wastewater services is the recognition of our dependence upon and responsibility for the natural environment. Coliban Water takes this responsibility seriously and has developed a corporate policy to provide the business direction for what this means in practice.

Environmental sustainability in the Coliban Water context covers intergenerational equity, polluter and user pay principles, pollution prevention, ecological design, life-cycle responsibilities and adaptive management approaches.  Coliban Water is committed to the principles that underpin this broader context for environmental management, undertaking effective environmental risk management for all of our activities and to developing our environmental management system to enable our work practices and procurement procedures to better understand and support them.  A number of initiatives are underway that begin to consider and address these sustainability principles and this information can be accessed by clicking your mouse on the tabs to the left.