South East Water

Company profile

At South East Water, we support healthy and liveable communities by delivering water, sewerage and recycled water services to 1.79 million people who rely on us every day and every night.

Our service area borders more than 270 kilometres of coastline and covers a land area of 3,640 square kilometres from Port Melbourne to Portsea and approximately 30 kilometres east of Pakenham.

Each year we deliver more than 130 billion litres of drinking water and collect more than 100 billion litres of wastewater (waste from the toilet, shower, laundry and kitchen in the home and from businesses) at our local water recycling plants and at Melbourne Water’s Eastern and Western Treatment Plants.

To deliver for our customers, we manage more than 25,700 kilometres of pipeline. We own, operate and maintain $4 billion of assets including water, recycled water and sewerage networks.

We’re creating a water-wise community

We’re helping build Melbourne’s most water-savvy community. In May 2019, homeowners will start moving into Aquarevo, a new development in Lyndhurst. They’ll be some of the first residents in Melbourne to have three types of water plumbed straight to their homes (drinking water, rainwater and Class A recycled water) to reduce their reliance on drinking water by up to 70 per cent.