Release of qldwater Voluntary Benchmarking Report
Date: 29-Jun-2017
Release of Queensland’s Urban Potable Water and Sewerage Benchmarking Report – 2012/13
Queensland’s third public water and sewerage benchmarking report has been completed using 2012/13 data with 41 members participating in the report, up from 28 last year and 17 the previous. This significant growth in participation is a significant achievement and reflects the commitment of our industry to improved transparency.
Benchmarking is crucial for our industry and these public reports have gone a long way towards preparing members for comparative reports to be published by DEWS from 2015.
Annual water and sewage data reporting via SWIM for 2013-14
It is coming up on that time of year again when annual water and sewage data is collated by Water Service Providers across the State and sent to BoM, NPR, ABS and the Qld Govt.
In the next month qldwater will be sending your SWIM representative information regarding accessing and using the SWIM system. If you have had staff changes and the SWIM reporting person from last year is no long working in this role please contact swim@qldwater.com.au. There will be no changes to the indicators from last year and as such we will be able to release the SWIM data templates on July 1 this year.
We are not proposing to hold any immediate training sessions as the indicators and templates haven’t changed. For next year’s reporting, the release of SWIMAnnual (the new SWIM data entry point to replace spreadsheets and webforms), the new DEWS KPIs, and certain change to the NPR will mean several training workshops across the State. However, this said if you would like SWIM training please contact us to discuss the best way to do this.
New version of SWIMLocal available (including new Task module)
SWIMLocal is data management software designed to assist you to efficiently obtain, collate, export, synchronise and translate your water and sewerage data across dispersed locations via a ‘cloud-based’ system across the internet. The system includes the flexibility for organisations to create and manage new indicators relevant to you, while seamlessly linking to the SWIM database and indicators.
A new version of SWIMLocal (with optional Task module) has been released. This new version is a major update, including:
- improved sync functioning
- better validation rules
- includes text indicators
- a new ‘Task’ user that can only see tasks and not data
- email and mobile contact details for ‘Users’
- printing functionality, and
- scripting to prevent common issues people have previously come up against (like entering data in the future, having active sites within inactive schemes, etc.).
If you are interested in trialling the SWIMLocal software and/or the new Task module please contact David Scheltinga (dscheltinga@qldwater.com.au or 0415 881 195).
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