United Water, a Veolia Water subsidiary, provides comprehensive maintenance programs for water and wastewater networks and currently manages more than 17,000 km of water and wastewater mains in Australia and New Zealand.
United Water's services involve emergency and planned repairs, cleaning sewer mains and water storage tanks, cathodic protection, mains flushing, detecting leaks, maintaining mechanical and electrical assets, and monitoring network performance.
The company's expertise in network optimisation has delivered excellent outcomes:
- Adelaide, South Australia - Each year United Water collects more than 6,000 water samples from 130 customer taps throughout the Adelaide metropolitan area. United Water also performs more than 17,000 tests to meet key performance indicators of colour, turbidity, pH, coliform bacteria, E.coli, fluoride, manganese, chlorine, iron and soluble aluminium. By optimising network performance, United Water has lifted the rate of tap samples free from coliforms from 90 percent to 98 percent.
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Papakura, New Zealand - Since 1997, United Water has improved the water quality grading (as assessed by the Ministry of Health) in Papakura's pipe network from a B grade or lower to an A grading. Combined with an A grading for water treatment, Papakura residents are now consistently receiving water of the highest quality.