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Sydney Water or formally, Sydney Water Corporation, is a New South Wales Governmentowned statutory corporation that provides potable drinking water, wastewater and some stormwater services to Greater Metropolitan Sydney, the Illawarra and the Blue Mountains regions, in the Australian state of New South Wales. Sydney Water has historically held a monopoly over the supply of water within the Sydney region, although legislation has recently been passed to open the market to competition. ==Name changes== The origins of Sydney Water go back to the 26 March 1888 when the was enacted and repealed certain sections of the relating to water supply and sewerage, thereby transferring the property, powers and obligations from the Municipal Council to the Board of Water Supply and Sewerage.〔 The forebears of Sydney Water include: * Board of Water Supply and Sewerage (18881892)〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/Entity.aspx?Path=\Agency\478 )〕 * Metropolitan Board of Water Supply and Sewerage (18921925)〔 * Metropolitan Water Sewerage and Drainage Board (19251987)〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/Entity.aspx?Path=\Agency\479 )〕 * Water Board (19871994)〔 which had also been the colloquial name for the organisation for much of its history in the 20th century, and persists among longer term employees and older members of the community to this day * Sydney Water Corporation Limited (19951999)〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://investigator.records.nsw.gov.au/Entity.aspx?Path=\Agency\482 )〕 * Sydney Water Corporation (1999present) - with "Limited" being dropped when the corporation changed from a state owned limited company to a statutory state-owned corporation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sydney Water」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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