Water Supply Reports
Our Water Our Future - Water Plan
The Victorian Government's long-term plan for securing our water future.
The Next Stage of the Government's Water Plan (PDF, 2.8mb) is an action plan to enable smarter water use and management across the state.
Visit Our Water Our Future for more information.
Central Region Sustainable Water Strategy
The Victorian Government's strategy to secure water supplies for homes, business, industry, agriculture and the environment for the next 50 years. The Central Region Sustainable Water Strategy is focused on balancing the water needs of urban and rural customers and the environment across the whole region. It also addresses any conflicts arising from sharing water between urban areas, irrigators and rivers in the Central Region.
Government's Central Region Sustainable Water Strategy
Melbourne Water Climate Change Study
This study identified trends for increased average and summer temperatures, reduced rainfall, reduced stream flows and more extreme weather events with more hot days, dry days and increased rainfall intensity during storm events.
Climate Change Study (PDF, 1.3mb)
Melbourne's Water Supply-Demand Strategy
This strategy details how the Melbourne water utilities will implement the government's policy directions and actions announced in the Central Region Sustainable Water Strategy. A program of actions is proposed to maintain reliable supplies and manage water demand for Melbourne urban water customers for the next 50 years with climate change.
Water Supply-Demand Strategy (PDF, 900kb)
Safe and acceptable drinking water - Preliminary Investigations
Sugarloaf Pipeline drinking water report (PDF, 937kb)