#252 – QQMOO: WHO KNEW?: ASSESSING THE FITNESS OF YOUR WATER SUPPLY CHAIN AGREEMENTS – ANNETTE DAVISON & MEGAN DYSON

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We have written before about the importance of understanding your handover points, from a governance and water quality supply chain risk perspective. However, in our experience, we still see many water supply chain agreements in which it is difficult to interpret exactly what is being required of the parties and therefore, how it is possible to understand whether those water supply chain agreements are actually being complied with in practice.

We have therefore come up with a simple five part framework to help address the issues that we see and help you to assess whether your water supply chain agreements are fit for purpose: QQMOO – who knew?!. Continue reading

#249 – HOW TO BREEZE THROUGH YOUR NEXT WATER QUALITY AUDIT! – ANNETTE DAVISON

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Are you a Compliance Manager, Compliance Advisor, Water and Sewer Manager, Internal Auditor or Water Quality Compliance Officer? Are you responsible for preparing for and managing your external operating licence and drinking water management system audits? Are you responsible for handling the audit outcomes? Are you confused over why you are not getting full compliance when you think you have fulfilled all the requirements? Continue reading

#245 – WATER QUALITY SUPPLY CHAIN RISK: HOW WELL DO YOU UNDERSTAND YOURS? – ANNETTE DAVISON

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The Australian Drinking Water Guidelines note that assessment of the drinking water supply system, including understanding its characteristics and sources of hazard and risks, is an essential prerequisite for subsequent steps in which effective strategies for prevention and control of hazards are planned and implemented. A water supply system can be defined as anything from source to endpoint – the components of this system depend on the type of water product or service being delivered, the specific processes involved, the interested parties in the supply chain and the required regulatory and formal requirements. Continue reading

#242 – GO WITH THE FLOW – WHAT MAKES A GOOD WATER SUPPLY SYSTEM PROCESS DIAGRAM? – ANNETTE DAVISON

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Objective: to protect public health by supplying safe, quality drinking water to our customers

Risk: the effect of uncertainty on objectives. (ISO 31000:2018)

The Australian Drinking Water Guidelines note that assessment of the drinking water supply system, including understanding its characteristics, sources of hazard and risks, is an essential prerequisite for subsequent steps in which effective strategies for prevention and control of hazards are planned and implemented. A water supply system can be defined as anything from source to endpoint – the components of this system depend on the type of water product or service being delivered, the specific processes involved, the interested parties in the supply chain and the required regulatory and formal requirements. Continue reading

#234 – ‘FROM PERFUNCTORY TO PREDICTION’ – GETTING VALUE FROM WATER QUALITY DATA – ANNETTE DAVISON

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The Framework for Management of Drinking Water Quality (Australian Drinking Water Guidelines) includes several requirements for water supply system monitoring. You’ve been collecting water quality data for years. You will be doing compliance reporting. You will probably be doing some short-term trending analysis. You might be doing long-term trending analysis. Continue reading