Water from the Casino Water Treatment Plant in NSW has taken out the top prize in WIOA Ixom’s Best Tasting Tap Water in Australia competition.
The Casino Water Treatment Plant is run by the Richmond Valley Council, beating the other State competition winners from around the country to win the coveted award.
Casino’s water will now go up against the global competition in the International Best Tasting Tap Water Competition in West Virginia in 2021.
WIOA is a finalist in the Associations Forum – 2021 Association Awards that recognise excellence and accomplishment by associations. We submitted our first ever entry into these awards for the Best Tasting Tap Water campaign that has been a great success in 2022, highlighted by the Gold medal win at the international competition.
The Association External Campaign of the Year Award (previously Association Achievement of the Year Award) is presented to an association that has made an outstanding achievement through an external campaign that has resulted in significant improvement for the association’s mission, sector or members.
Members are invited to submit an expression of interest for consideration for a position on the Diversity & Inclusion Group.
We look forward to working with the Diversity & Inclusion Group to deliver even more services for our Members across the country.
The national Drinking Water Operator Certification Framework originally adopted name “Certification” as it most accurately reflected the needs of the water industry at the time.
Over time, there has been confusion over the term as it relates to Certificates awarded as a qualification on completion of Vocational Education and Training.
Individuals hold a qualification, for example a Certificate II or III, but that does not mean they are “Certified”.
To remove this confusion the Drinking Water Operator Certification Framework and the WIOA Water Operators Scheme will change from certification to registration.
Certified Operators will be automatically recognized as “Registered Professional Operators”.
The administration system Acuario provides an easy-to-use interface for the administration of the scheme. Demonstrations of Acuario can be made on request.
If you are interested in becoming a Registered Professional Operator, contact WIOA.
Due to the COVID restrictions, WIOA has postponed the Victorian conference in Bendigo. This conference will now be held on Wednesday 24 & Thursday 25 November 2021.
We will draw advice and information provided by both Federal and State government authorities. WIOA is committed to implementing all recommended precautions from Health authorities, and will encourage all event attendees to follow all the guidelines in place.
You can check out the program and register for this event. A strict COVID Safe plan is in place for this event.
Help the water industry get recognised in the 2021 census by using one of the 28 occupations we have provided. https://wioa.org.au/anzsco/
The 2021 WIOA Annual General Meeting will be held online – broadcasting to all Members on Wednesday 21 April 2021.
Interested Members can access the meeting via an online facility by registering by 19 April 2021.
Instructions for access to the WIOA AGM Zoom room will be confirmed by email on registration.
We are continuing to monitor COVID-19 across Australia and are confident that we will return to face to face events in 2021. The WIOA NSW Water Industry Operations Conference & Exhibition will now be held on Wednesday 27 & Thursday 28th of October 2021, and we look forward to your support for this event in Tamworth.
We will be following advice from state Health departments to ensure our events meet all COVID safety requirements.
Congratulations to the operators of the Rossarden WTP who were awarded the Ixom 2020 Best Tasting Tap Water in Australia.
The Rossarden Water Treatment Plant, which is run in partnership with water services provider TRILITY, beat every other finalist from around the country to win the coveted award.
This is the second time Tasmania has won the national award, in 2016 water from TasWater’s Barrington Water Treatment Plant was named the best in the country.
The award acknowledges that TasWater is delivering great tasting, safe and reliable drinking water to Tasmania’s regional communities.
Rossarden’s water will now go up against global competition in the International Best Tasting Tap Water Competition in West Virginia next year.
The community of Rossarden can now celebrate after being acknowledged as having the best tasting tap water in Australia.
Congratulations to Adrian Rijnbeek from Xylem who has been accepted as the 40th member of the WIOA IDIOTS (Inducted as Delegates of the Inextricably Obstructed Tap Society).
IDIOTS is a term of endearment for IWOA members as the award recognises the services of individuals to the Association. The IDIOTS award is presented to an individual in recognition of their commitment to the vision and philosophies of the Association and the active promotion of WIOA through distinguished service to the Association.