In the Community
Friends groups, Landcare groups and other volunteers play an important role in protecting and improving their local rivers and creeks.
Adopt a Waterway
Why not adopt a section of your local waterway and form your own group to help care for it? Or you can find groups already operating in your area by visiting Melbourne Water’s Friends groups website listing or the Victorian Environment Friends Network website.
Waterwatch - Port Phillip and Westernport region
Community groups can learn more about their local waterways by participating in the free Waterwatch education program, which teaches participants how to measure river health.
Participants identifying waterbugs from their local creek
Macroinvertebrate (waterbug) sampling
Grants for community groups
Melbourne Water values the important role community and volunteer groups play in protecting and improving their local rivers and creeks. But we recognise that their work can be restricted by limited funds.
Our community grants program provides funding and advice to groups working along waterways or on lands managed by us.
Drain stencilling
Your can help reduce litter in local rivers and creeks by volunteering for drain stencilling in your neighbourhood.
Girl Guides Healthy Waterways Badge
We have partnered with Girl Guides Victoria to promote Victoria’s first Healthy Waterways girl guides badge which is benefiting our rivers and creeks.
Frog Census
Learn about Melbourne’s frogs and how they can be an indicator of healthy rivers and creeks by becoming a volunteer in the twice-yearly Melbourne Water Frog Census.
Endangered growling grass frog (Litoria raniformis)
Build a raingarden
You can make a difference to the health of your local rivers and creeks by building a raingarden at your home, school or workplace to help remove pollutants in stormwater.
