Melbourne Water treats effluent to Class A recycled water standard. A proportion of this water is used onsite and provided to retail water companies to sell to recycled water customers. This file contains annual volumes of recycled water use and sales as reporting in the organisation's annual report.NOTE. Whilst every effort has been taken in collecting, validating and providing the attached data, Melbourne Water Corporation makes no representations or guarantees as to the accuracy or completeness of this data. Any person or group that uses this data does so at its own risk and should make their own assessment and investigations as to the suitability and/or application of the data. Melbourne Water Corporation shall not be liable in any way to any person or group for loss of any kind including damages, costs, interest, loss of profits or special loss or damage, arising from any use, error, inaccuracy, incompleteness or other defect in this data.

Wastewater discharges are regulated by the Water Board. Those regulated are generally required to submit Self-Monitoring Reports to the State or Regional Water Board. Some dischargers submit their reports through the electronic Self-Monitoring Report (eSMR) module of the California Integrated Water Quality System (CIWQS). Generally these are for discharges into surface waters regulated by an individual National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit, though other dischargers may be included in this dataset as well. This dataset are the monitoring results that have been submitted as data points after the submitters have been approved for electronic submittals (i.e. after the "all electronic date"). Note that this dataset does not include records where the sampling date falls outside of the years shown below. The excluded records include: records where the sampling date is missing, records where the sampling date is invalid (e.g., records with sampling dates in the future or unreasonably far in the past), and records for samples taken prior to year 2006. The excluded records represent approximately 0.1% of all records in the complete eSMR dataset.