Sydney Catchment Authority
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The Sydney Catchment Authority (SCA) is a New South Wales
, Australia
Government agency created in 1999. The SCA manages and protects Sydney's drinking water catchments and catchment infrastructure, and supplies bulk water to its customers, including Sydney Water and a number of local councils.
The SCA's objectives are:
The SCA's customers then filter the water the SCA supplies and distribute it to households, businesses and other users. More than four and a half million people, about 60 percent of the NSW population, use water supplied by the SCA.
Further information on the SCA can be found at www.sca.nsw.gov.au.
New South Wales
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Government agency created in 1999. The SCA manages and protects Sydney's drinking water catchments and catchment infrastructure, and supplies bulk water to its customers, including Sydney Water and a number of local councils.
The SCA's objectives are:
- to manage and protect the catchment area and catchment infrastructure to promote water quality
- to protect public health and safety, and the environment
- to ensure that the water it supplies is of appropriate quality
- to operate according to the principles of ecologically sustainable developmentEcologically sustainable developmentEcologically sustainable development is the environmental component of sustainable development. It can be achieved partially through the use of the precautionary principle, namely that if there are threats of serious or irreversible environmental damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not...
- to efficiently and economically manage catchment infrastructure works.
The SCA's customers then filter the water the SCA supplies and distribute it to households, businesses and other users. More than four and a half million people, about 60 percent of the NSW population, use water supplied by the SCA.
Further information on the SCA can be found at www.sca.nsw.gov.au.
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