Outcomes reporting considers the performance of Victoria’s water businesses against their own commitments to customers.
Water business outcomes reporting
Overview
What is outcomes reporting?
Outcomes reporting considers the performance of Victoria’s water businesses against their own commitments to customers, established as part of the 2018 water price review process. We expect water businesses to take ownership for their performance and be directly accountable to their customers through self-reporting as soon as practical after the completion of each reporting year.
Each water business reports its actual performance for the year against its targets, providing a self-assessment using a simple “traffic light” rating system:
- red = failed to meet target
- yellow = close to achieving target
- green = achieved target
Using this traffic light system, businesses rate each of their measures, each of their outcomes, and their overall performance for the year. Businesses also comment on overall performance and on each outcome.
Water businesses’ summary reports are available below, along with our latest Outcomes Report providing an overview on how businesses performed in 2021-22. Refer to each business’s website for their self-reporting.
Are customers getting what they paid for?
A set of clear measures and targets for each outcome allows the water business to demonstrate whether it has delivered the outcome, and therefore whether customers received what they paid for. This ensures water businesses are directly accountable to their customers for the service they provide. As regulator, we oversee this process and require the businesses provide a summary of their self reporting.
In general for 2021-22, we consider that Victorian water customers are getting what they paid for. Businesses have continued to meet most of their commitments despite interruptions from the ongoing pandemic, and prices have largely remained flat or are falling (excluding inflation) across the pricing period. However, there remains a high number of major projects that are delayed or deferred, so businesses may need to carefully manage their value proposition to ensure customers continue to receive good value for money.
On 1 July 2021, City West Water and Western Water integrated to form business Greater Western Water. We will report on Greater Western Water's performance from 2021-22.
Read our 2021-22 outcomes report
View each business's outcomes performance for 2021-22:
Delivery of businesses' major capital projects
Our major projects supplement covers the status of water businesses’ largest capital projects. Significant changes to the major project schedule essentially change what customers get for their prices, and should be explained to customers by the water business.
Businesses reported that as at the end of June 2022, 84 of the 207 listed major capital projects are either deferred or delayed. This number has increased by 13 projects overall compared to last year and includes several projects affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Read our major projects supplement
What happens next
Businesses will continue to report their annual performance against outcome commitments at the end of June each year. We anticipate our future reports will provide more commentary on how businesses are tracking against their outcome commitments, and possible implications for their ‘performance’ rating at the next price review.
Our pricing framework puts customer outcomes first
Our PREMO water pricing framework puts customers squarely at the centre of the regulatory pricing process, and pivots Victoria’s water businesses to focus on what their customers, rather than the regulator, want and expect from their water and sewerage service provider.
As part of the 2018 water price review, water businesses established a set of customer “outcomes” following extensive engagement with their customers to inform their price submissions. These outcomes, developed with the customers, essentially reflect the value customers will receive for the prices they pay.
Performance against its outcomes will form a large part of a business’s “Performance” element towards its overall PREMO rating at the next price review, and is therefore a key element in closing the loop from one pricing cycle to the next.
Resources
Outcomes Report 2021-22
Water businesses' outcomes performance 2021-22
18 October 2022
View a summary of Barwon Water's outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23, and its performance against its customer commitments.
(pdf, 346.63 KB)
18 October 2022
View a summary of Central Highlands Water's outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23, and its performance against its customer commitments.
(pdf, 642.7 KB)
18 October 2022
View a summary of Coliban Water's outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23, and its performance against its customer commitments.
(pdf, 287.85 KB)
18 October 2022
View a summary of East Gippsland Water's outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23, and its performance against its customer commitments.
(pdf, 269.25 KB)
18 October 2022
View a summary of Gippsland Water's outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23, and its performance against its customer commitments.
(pdf, 283.81 KB)
18 October 2022
View a summary of Goulburn Valley Water's outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23, and its performance against its customer commitments.
(pdf, 311.13 KB)
18 October 2022
View a summary of GWMWater's outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23, and its performance against its customer commitments.
(pdf, 342.77 KB)
18 October 2022
View a summary of Greater Western Water (previously City West Water area)'s outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23, and its performance against its customer commitments.
(pdf, 359.13 KB)
18 October 2022
View a summary of Greater Western Water (previously Western Water area)'s outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–20, and its performance against its customer commitments.
(pdf, 350.8 KB)
18 October 2022
View a summary of Lower Murray Water's urban outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23, and its performance against its customer commitments.
(pdf, 309.16 KB)
18 October 2022
View a summary of Lower Murray Water's rural outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23, and its performance against its customer commitments.
(pdf, 184.37 KB)
18 October 2022
View a summary of North East Water's rural outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–26, and its performance against its customer commitments.
(pdf, 277.25 KB)
18 October 2022
View a summary of South East Water's outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23, and its performance against its customer commitments.
(pdf, 206.41 KB)
18 October 2022
View a summary of South Gippsland Water's outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–20, and its performance against its customer commitments.
(pdf, 257.37 KB)
18 October 2022
View a summary of Southern Rural Water's outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23, and its performance against its customer commitments.
(pdf, 252.47 KB)
18 October 2022
View a summary of Wannon Water's outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23, and its performance against its customer commitments.
(pdf, 262.52 KB)
18 October 2022
View a summary of Westernport Water's outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23, and its performance against its customer commitments.
(pdf, 273.38 KB)
Water businesses' outcomes commitments
19 June 2019
View Barwon Water’s outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23.
(pdf, 187.94 KB)
19 June 2019
View Central Highlands Water’s outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23.
(pdf, 188 KB)
19 June 2019
View City West Water’s outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23.
(pdf, 425.17 KB)
19 June 2019
View Coliban Water’s outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23.
(pdf, 356.73 KB)
19 June 2019
View East Gippsland Water’s outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23.
(pdf, 299.78 KB)
19 June 2019
View Gippsland Water’s outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23.
(pdf, 332.78 KB)
19 June 2019
View Goulburn Valley Water’s outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23.
(pdf, 346.09 KB)
19 June 2019
View GWMWater’s outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23.
(pdf, 279.34 KB)
19 June 2019
View Lower Murray Water's urban outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23.
(pdf, 374.89 KB)
19 June 2019
View Lower Murray Water's rural outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23.
(pdf, 278.08 KB)
19 June 2019
View North East Water’s outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–26.
(pdf, 322.2 KB)
19 June 2019
View South East Water’s outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23.
(pdf, 313.97 KB)
19 June 2019
View South Gippsland Water’s outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–20.
(pdf, 318.53 KB)
19 June 2019
View Southern Rural Water’s outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23.
(pdf, 317.83 KB)
19 June 2019
View Wannon Water’s outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23.
(pdf, 314.41 KB)
19 June 2019
View Western Water’s outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–20.
(pdf, 323.99 KB)
19 June 2019
View Westernport Water’s outcomes and measurable outputs for the regulatory period 2018–23.
(pdf, 285.36 KB)