Icon Water Limited, trading principally as Icon Water, is a

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and

wastewater Wastewater is water generated after the use of freshwater, raw water, drinking water or saline water in a variety of deliberate applications or processes. Another definition of wastewater is "Used water from any combination of domestic, industrial ...

public utility A public utility company (usually just utility) is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service (often also providing a service using that infrastructure). Public utilities are subject to forms of public control and r ...

that is an

Australian Capital Territory The Australian Capital Territory (commonly abbreviated as ACT), known as the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) until 1938, is a landlocked federal territory of Australia containing the national capital Canberra and some surrounding townships. I ...

-owned corporation. The company provides

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and wastewater services to the ACT. Icon Water is also a 50% owner of

ActewAGL ActewAGL is an Australian multi-utility joint venture company that provides utility services in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) and south-east New South Wales. The company was formed in October 2000 between the Australian Gas Light Company ...

, a multi-utility provider of electricity and gas services in the ACT and south-east

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. Icon Water Limited is also the owner of

Bendora Dam The Bendora Dam is a thin-wall, double curvature concrete arch dam across the upper reaches of the Cotter River, located within Namadgi National Park in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. The impounded reservoir is called the Bendora R ...

Corin Dam The Corin Dam is an earth and rockfill embankment dam with an uncontrolled side channel spillway across the Cotter River, located within Namadgi National Park in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. The impounded reservoir is called t ...

(further upstream),

Cotter Dam The Cotter Dam is a concrete gravity and rockfill embankment dam across the Cotter River, located in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Both the dam and river are named after early settler in the area Garrett Cotter. The impounded Cot ...

(further downstream) and

Googong Dam Googong Dam is a minor ungated earth and rock fill with clay core embankment dam with concrete chute spillway plus a nearby high earthfill saddle embankment across the Queanbeyan River upstream of Queanbeyan in the Capital Country region of N ...

in New South Wales. Water is gravity fed to Canberra via the

Bendora Gravity Main The Bendora Gravity Main is a water main located in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia. Water in the water main travels from the Bendora Dam via gravity to the treatment plant on Mount Stromlo, adjacent to the Cotter Dam pumping statio ...

and pumped from

. Icon Water operates, and maintains 50 service reservoirs, 25 pump stations, 2 water treatment plants, 27 sewage pumping stations, 4 sewage treatments plants, over 3,400 km of sewer pipelines and over 3,400 km of water pipelines. Icon Water Limited is wholly owned by the

Government of the Australian Capital Territory The Government of the Australian Capital Territory, also referred to as the Australian Capital Territory Government or ACT Government, is the executive authority of the Australian Capital Territory, one of the territories of Australia. The leade ...

, with the only voting shares being held by the

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and the Minister for Water, Energy and Emissions Reductions.

History and relevant legislation

The origins of the Icon Water Limited (previously ACTEW Corporation) go back to the Australian Public Service. The Australian Capital Territory Electricity Authority was established in 1962, with functions transferred from the

Commonwealth Government The Australian Government, also known as the Commonwealth Government, is the national government of Australia, a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy. Like other Westminster-style systems of government, the Australian Government ...

to the ACT Government. In 1988 its functions were transferred to the Australian Capital Territory Electricity and Water Authority. The ACTEW Corporation was established under the in 1995 to take over the Authority's functions. The company was given obligations under the , , , and the . In October 2000 ACTEW Corporation joined with the

Australian Gas Light Company The Australian Gas Light Company (AGL) was an Australian gas and electricity retailer, operated entirely by McCarthy Hanlin. It was formed in Sydney in 1837 and supplied town gas for the first public lighting of a street lamp in Sydney in 1841. ...

(AGL) to form

to jointly provide electricity and gas services in the ACT and south-east

. In 2000 ACTEW Corporation entered into a contract with ActewAGL for the management and operation of the water and sewerage network of the ACT and surrounding area. The contact was not renewed in June 2012. On 4 May 2015 ACTEW Corporation was renamed Icon Water Limited. The reasons given for the change were brand confusion with electricity and gas supplier

, the name ACTEW no longer being relevant in the company's operations, disconnect between the company's origin and future.

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* Electric power companies of Australia Water companies of Australia Water management in the Australian Capital Territory Government-owned companies of Australia Australian companies established in 1995 Energy companies established in 1995 {{Canberra-stub

History and relevant legislation

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