Talk:Brisbane Water (utility)

Seqwater was not the replacement for Brisbane Water

Brisbane Water was a "Business Unit" of Brisbane City Council, and had been envisaged as eventually operating as a quasi-commercialised entity.

It ceased operating as a Business Unit soon after the (then) new Lord Mayor was elected, Campbell Newman. He felt that the business unit needed to be reintegrated back into the Council management/reporting structure for more direct Council control. To support this action, the Divisional Manager - Brisbane Water role was dissolved. At the time, a post occupied by Jim Reeves.

Brisbane Water effectively ceased as an entity at this time, and the replacement Council unit was termed "Brisbane City Council - Water Distribution" or BCCWD.

Some of BCC's assets and bulk water supply functions were handed over to State entities in 2008, as part of Southeast Qld water reforms initiated by the Beattie State government. However, the core business of water and sewerage service distribution and retail stayed with Brisbane City Council until mid-2010, when these assets and functions transferred to Qld Urban Utilities, a statutory authority owned by the its consituent local governments.

The 2008 bulk water asset/function transfers were to: Southeast Qld Water Grid Manager Seqwater (not "SEQWater", this was the name of a previous entity joint owned by SE Qld Councils and State Government, that also transferred its assets and functions to the State government in 2008) Linkwater Watersecure

Unfortunately, this is Original Research (I was a direct witness to the changes in governance) so hard for me to put into Wikipedia. NiceDoge (talk) 10:54, 18 March 2013 (UTC)