page_title: Melbourne Water
section_title: Water storages
hierarchical_section_title: Melbourne Water / Infrastructure / Water storages
caption_attribution_description: English: Silvan Reservoir from Kalorama, Victoria (Photograph by Jeremy Lunn)
context_page_description: Melbourne Water is a Victorian government owned statutory authority that controls much of the water system in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, including the reservoirs, and the sewerage and drainage system that services the city.
  Melbourne Water was formed by the merger of Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works and a number of smaller urban water authorities in 1992. Melbourne Water primarily operates under the Water Industry Act 1994 and the Water Act 1989.
context_section_description: Melbourne Water manages the ten Melbourne reservoirs. The total storage capacity is 1,810,500 megalitres.
caption: Silvan Reservoir
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