Icon Water

Icon Water Limited
Company typeGovernment-owned corporation
IndustryPublic utility
Founded1 July 1995 (1995-07-01)
Headquarters,
Area served
Australian Capital Territory
Key people
Wendy Caird (Chair),
Ray Hezkial (Managing Director)
ServicesDrinking water, wastewater, stormwater
RevenueIncrease A$493.3m (2023)[1]
Decrease A$31m (2023)[1]
Decrease A$59.7m (2023)[1]
OwnerACT Government
Number of employees
450 (2023)[1]
SubsidiariesIcon Distribution Investments Limited,
Icon Retail Investments Limited,
ActewAGL (50%),
Ecowise Environmental Pty Limited (50%)
Websitewww.iconwater.com.au

Icon Water Limited, trading principally as Icon Water, is a water and wastewater public utility that is an Australian Capital Territory-owned corporation. The company provides drinking water and wastewater services to the ACT. Icon Water is also a 50% owner of ActewAGL, a multi-utility provider of electricity and gas services in the ACT and south-east New South Wales. Icon Water Limited is also the owner of Bendora Dam, Corin Dam (further upstream), Cotter Dam (further downstream) and Googong Dam in New South Wales. Water is gravity fed to Canberra via the Bendora Gravity Main and pumped from Googong Dam. Icon Water operates, and maintains 50 service reservoirs, 25 pump stations, 2 water treatment plants, 27 sewage pumping stations, 4 sewage treatments plants, over 3,400 km of sewer pipelines and over 3,400 km of water pipelines.

Icon Water Limited is wholly owned by the Government of the Australian Capital Territory, with the only voting shares being held by the Chief Minister and the Minister for Water, Energy and Emissions Reductions.[2]