Our precious drinking water

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Title: Our precious drinking water

Summary: Melbourne’s drinking water is highly regarded by the community. Most of our water comes from uninhabited mountain ash forests high up in the Yarra Ranges east of Melbourne, and more than 157,000 hectares has been reserved for the primary purpose of harvesting water. These water supply catchments have been closed to the public for more than 100 years. Some of them are now National Parks managed by Melbourne Water and Parks Victoria. Melbourne is one of only about five cities in the world that has such protected catchments.

Organisation: Melbourne Water

Target audience: General

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