As the provider of the ACT's sewerage services, Icon Water is developing a long-term Sewerage System Strategy. This strategy takes a 50 year view of the sewage treatment and collection system, in light of our changing operating environment. To do this, we've used adaptive planning tools to create an adaptable and flexible plan for our sewerage system.
Icon Water's vision for the sewage treatment and collection system is to sustain and enhance quality of life through safe and economic provision of sewerage services.
The variables illustrated below are the key change drivers which affect the sewage treatment and collection system. They are the variables that are the least predictable and most likely to have the most impact on the system.
The five scenarios were developed using different combinations of the key variables at their high and low extremes.
For example, some of the scenarios have a significantly higher than predicted population, and others a significantly lower than predicted population.
These scenarios refer to Canberra, however the strategy takes a broad view and considers the greater Capital region when exploring the future.
In the "Currently Planned Canberra" future, the key variables progress in the way Icon Water and current government projections predict. That is, population growth and climate change predictions change and increase sewage production across the Capital region, while the policy and regulatory framework remains as it is today.
DownloadIn the “Challenged Canberra” future, population and climate changes combine to significantly change and increase sewerage service requirements across the Capital region, while the community’s environmental and social expectations, and the policy and regulatory framework, remains largely as it is today.
DownloadIn the "Compressed Canberra" future, population growth has a modest impact on sewerage service requirements across the Capital region, while higher community environmental and social expectations change the policy and regulatory framework and creates drivers for initiatives to improve the built and natural environment.
DownloadIn the “Changed Canberra” future, population and climate changes combine to significantly change and increase sewerage service requirements across the Capital region, while higher community environmental and social expectations change the policy and regulatory framework and creates drivers for resource recovery and reuse.
DownloadIn the “Continuing Canberra” future, population growth has a modest impact on sewage production across the Capital region, while the community’s environmental and social expectations, and the policy and regulatory framework, remain largely as it is today.
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