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Planning a cooler, greener future
With water playing a lead role in cooling and greening the city, we're working to identify and create opportunities to help bring the Western Parkland City vision to life. Water and wastewater are essential for growth and development, but they'll also play a vital role in ensuring the Western Parkland City becomes a vibrant, liveable, sustainable urban centre.
The parkland city
We're working with customers, partners and the wider community to deliver affordable and essential water services, healthy waterways and vibrant, cool, green places for people to come together to live, work and play in Western Sydney.
Taking an integrated approach to managing the total water cycle, we're accelerating the construction of new water and wastewater assets, as well as amplifying existing services to support current and future growth.
A vital resource for an exciting future
Western Sydney is in the midst of an exciting transformation, and none of it is possible without water.
Between 2020 and 2022, we're investing $1.3 billion in infrastructure projects in the Western Sydney Aerotropolis Growth Area (WSAGA). By 2026, we'll have invested about $3 billion in infrastructure across the Western Sydney Parkland City.
Reusing water is central to this approach, and there are already some recycled water schemes in place for non-drinking purposes.
We're working with customers, businesses, other utilities, government agencies and councils to identify and collaborate on opportunities for integrated, water resilient and landscape-led planning that will help bring the Western Sydney Parkland City vision to life.
See our Growth Servicing Plan to learn more about our 5-year planning outlook for water and wastewater infrastructure, including processes and anticipated timelines and how you can accelerate 'out-of-sequence' developments.
Learn more about how we're Creating a water resilient city: Bringing the Western Parkland City to life.
Reimagining water in Western Sydney
Sydney Water is reimagining the way we plan, deliver and manage water to support the Western Parkland City. The aim of this plan is to ensure 'our customers enjoy affordable and essential water services, healthy waterways, and vibrant, cool and green places'.
With the Western Sydney Regional Master Plan (9MB), we're forging a pathway towards a more integrated, sustainable and resilient water future that keeps water in the landscape, contributes to the circular economy and brings about whole-of-community benefits. We estimate that this approach will add $10 billion in socio-economic value to the region.
Our regional master plan outlines an adaptable approach to planning, delivering and managing water services by:
- integrating whole-of-water cycle servicing options with land use planning for the Western Parkland City
- understanding the broader economic benefits of alternative servicing approaches
- engaging with key government agencies to get the best customer outcomes.
Delivering a water-sensitive parkland city
- We're providing more recycled water for non-drinking purposes, including opportunities for use within homes and businesses, irrigation of public open spaces, and agriculture.
- We're providing more recycled water and opportunities for reuse to retain more water in the landscape and reduce the amount of excess wastewater and stormwater discharged to waterways.
- We're increasing the focus on retaining and reusing stormwater locally, supported by centralised coordinated management and governance. Read our summary of the Western Parkland City: Urban Typologies and Stormwater Solutions report.
Check out the full report:
- Western Parkland City: Urban Typologies and Stormwater solutions (Part 1) – Introduction and Wianamatta water management approach
- Western Parkland City: Urban Typologies and Stormwater solutions (Part 2) – A Wianamatta water management approach
- Western Parkland City: Urban Typologies and Stormwater solutions (Part 3) – The role of lots, streets and open spaces and Building typologies
- Western Parkland City: Urban Typologies and Stormwater solutions (Part 4) – Building typologies
- Western Parkland City: Urban Typologies and Stormwater solutions (Part 5) – Illustrative precincts and conclusions and recommendations
We're supporting land-use planning that reduces hard constructed surfaces and prevents the loss of soils by incorporating more water-sensitive urban design to help shape enjoyable open community places. Learn more about how we're Cooling Western Sydney, and see our heat mapping in South Creek urban cooling modelling.
Unlocking the circular economy
The circular economy will play a vital role in ensuring the Western Parkland City becomes a resilient and sustainable city, and a place where people want to live, work and visit.
Sydney Water's approach to the circular economy is key to achieving our goal of net zero environmental impact. We will realise this by delivering better outcomes through integrated water management that will restore and regenerate natural systems, keep resources in use at their highest value, and economically design out waste and pollution.
Read more about our work with NSW Circular and our stakeholders to understand key actions needed for Unlocking the circular economy in the Western Parkland City.
Unlocking the value of food waste
Sydney Water and Circular Australia partnered with the UTS Institute for Sustainable Futures to produce economic modelling examining the economic benefits unlocked by co-digesting wastewater and organic waste from the Western Parkland City at our Advanced Water Recycling Centre (AWRC) in Kemps Creek.
The modelling found the AWRC could activate a broader circular economy hub in the Western Parkland City with benefits for jobs, emissions and the wider economy. This presents an exciting opportunity to manage organic waste in a way that diverts it from landfill and captures, recycles and reuses energy and nutrients.
Read more about the benefits and how we can collaborate to unlock the value of food waste in the Western Parkland City.
Innovative water management for Aerotropolis Precinct
The Aerotropolis integrated water system will be Australia's largest stormwater harvesting scheme.
Our summary report shows how we will manage water in the area as the Aerotropolis is developed, with implementation subject to further stakeholder engagement.
We're building an advanced water recycling centre at Kemps Creek.
Building new infrastructure
We're planning and delivering infrastructure to support newly released and rezoned land.
- We're planning and delivering infrastructure to support growth for the Aerotropolis and the South West Growth Area.
- We're developing the Upper South Creek Advanced Water Recycling Centre to underpin growth services within the region.
- We're investigating bioenergy service options to support the Agribusiness Precinct.
- We're constructing 14 kilometres of trunk mains along the Northern Road at Oran Park to cater for growth.
- We're amplifying the water network to increase capacity to support initial growth in the Mamre Road Precinct.
- We're providing recycled water to 12,400 homes as part of the Hoxton Park Recycled Water Scheme (when the homes have been built). In the meantime, we're looking at how we can use the recycled water infrastructure to reduce the demand on drinking water by using recycled water to build other infrastructure in Western Sydney.
Improving existing infrastructure
We're improving the current infrastructure by:
- upgrading existing wastewater network and water resource recovery facilities, such as St Marys, Quakers Hill, Rouse Hill and West Camden, to support future growth
- developing the servicing strategy to deliver major infrastructure, and considering how we can use existing facilities to service initial growth for the Aerotropolis
- progressively linking Prospect South and Macarthur water delivery systems – ProMac – to support growth.
The new reservoir, pumping station and pipelines at Cecil Park are part of the ProMac project.