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Sydney Water's Smart Meter Pilot and Rollout Plan

Revision 2026-08-12-sydney-evidence-baseline · effective 2026-08-12

Superseded. A later revision exists: 2026-08-20-source-dates-b5 →

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Created the first structured Evidence Passport with 3 claims and 4 source dossiers.

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Change set

add /evidencePassport — Added claim-level evidence mapping and source dossiers.
add /revisionHistory — Established a permanent, hash-addressed baseline revision.

3: of 3 claims mapped
4: source dossiers
0: publication dates recorded
0: archives linked
0: exact locators
0: content captures hashed

Claims, one by one

The text below is copied verbatim from the published record. Each claim names the source dossiers that carry it; caveats stay attached to the claim they qualify.

Claim 1 clm-67cd461a72fa5a6c quantitative

Sydney Water piloted wireless smart meters, with 7,500 installed across four suburbs by 2023; the operator reported a $70 average bill reduction and 28,000L saved after 313 leak alerts.

Published field: snippet · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: Utility Magazine reports the $2 million pilot, 7,500 installations in Liverpool, Beecroft, Bellevue Hill and Kenthurst, a $70 average bill reduction, 28,000L saved and 313 leak notifications in 2023.
Caveat: The savings are Sydney Water's reported pilot results carried by trade press, not an independent evaluation.

Sources carrying this claim

Utility Magazine — Sydney Water shares results of smart metre rollout

Claim 2 clm-b2a96489e9a26f78 quantitative

Sydney Water plans to replace 1.6 million mechanical meters across Greater Sydney

Published field: snippet · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: Sydney Water's smart-meter page says 1.6 million mechanical meters across Greater Sydney will be replaced over coming years.
Caveat: This is the utility's stated plan, not a completed deployment.

Sources carrying this claim

Sydney Water — Smart meters

Claim 3 clm-ce84100f28987e30 quantitative

in January–February 2025, the utility was still using a market-sounding RFI to choose a prime-contractor delivery model for the mass replacement.

Published field: snippet · verbatim
Mapping: mapped · no interpretation or interpolation added by this passport
What the mapping says: The NSW procurement record dates the RFI to 24 January–21 February 2025 and says it sought market information on a prime-contractor model covering some or all elements of the 1.6 million-meter mass replacement.
Caveat: This is a dated procurement-stage statement; it makes no claim about contractor status after February 2025.

Sources carrying this claim

buy.nsw — Sydney Water Smart Metering Prime Contractor Model RFI

Source dossiers and revision state

This layer records what is known about each source, what is still missing, and the exact snapshot this page is rendering. A missing date, archive or hash stays visible as missing.

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3: of 3 claims mapped
4: source dossiers
0: publication dates recorded
0: archives linked
0: exact locators
0: content captures hashed

Governance facts carried by the record

Operator: Sydney Water
Actor types: utility, regional-government
Funding model: utility
Funding description: Not recorded
Cost: Not recorded
Ownership: Not recorded
Decision rights: Not recorded
Exit conditions: Not recorded

4 source dossiers

Sydney Water — Smart meters sydneywater.com.au · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID: src-7815d51b7fa26433
Publisher: Name not classified · sydneywater.com.au
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-12
Dossier created: 2026-08-12
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
Operator's own description of the 1.6M-meter target, technology and leak alerts.
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: clm-b2a96489e9a26f78

Utility Magazine — Sydney Water shares results of smart metre rollout utilitymagazine.com.au · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID: src-f860cb946b11cb4b
Publisher: Name not classified · utilitymagazine.com.au
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-12
Dossier created: 2026-08-12
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
Pilot scale ($2M, 7,500 meters, four suburbs) and measured savings.
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: clm-67cd461a72fa5a6c

buy.nsw — Sydney Water Smart Metering Prime Contractor Model RFI buy.nsw.gov.au · 1 linked claim

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID: src-a8983b7aaf333a32
Publisher: Name not classified · buy.nsw.gov.au
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-12
Dossier created: 2026-08-12
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
Government procurement listing for the January–February 2025 market-sounding RFI on a prime-contractor delivery model for the 1.6M-meter mass replacement.
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: clm-ce84100f28987e30

Australian Water Association — Using digital meter leak notifications to support customers awa.asn.au · background

Open original source ↗

Stable source ID: src-0d61ad0c8d4779a9
Publisher: Name not classified · awa.asn.au
Type / language: web-page · language not classified
Published: Not recorded
Updated: Not recorded
Source last checked: No source-level check date
Record last verified: 2026-08-12
Dossier created: 2026-08-12
Retrieved copy: No local capture recorded
Archive: No archived copy linked
Content hash: No captured content hash
Locator: Open the recorded source note
Independent corroboration of the pilot's scale-up (175 → 550 → 3,200 customers by April 2023).
Descriptive only — not page/paragraph exact
Claims linked: Background source; no baseline claim points here

Known limits of this passport

Publisher names and source languages have not yet been classified; domains are recorded without guessing.
Existing source notes are descriptive locators, not page- or paragraph-exact citations.
A missing archive, publication date or content hash is shown as null rather than inferred.
The project-level evidence grade ranks the strongest source in the entry; it is not a truth score for every claim.