Why Melbourne’s water tastes great

We’re working to improve the streamside vegetation and habitat for native plants and animals along a 2km stretch of the Little Yarra River in Yarra Junction.

Weed control
Revegetation
River and creek improvement

Youell Street sewer renewal

Footscray

Current

We are upgrading sections of two sewer systems in Seddon and Footscray as part of Melbourne Water's four-year, $100-million program to upgrade ageing sewer pipes and manholes across Melbourne.

Sewer system
Construction

Protecting the Watts River catchment

Healesville

Current

We’re working hard to protect the lower Watts River catchment from an aggressive weed, red cestrum.

Weed control

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26 November 2020

Kids Teaching Kids – an environmental vision for the future.

It’s on again – virtually! It's on again - virtually! Around 2,000 students from across the country will meet online on Monday November 30th for the annual Kids Teaching Kids Conference.

25 November 2020

Good leaders never stop learning

Most viewed pages

Don't miss our most viewed to find what you need, or what's been missing from your day:

Water storage levels

Rainfall and river levels

Careers

Drip Trip game

Thomson Dam cam

Apply to build or develop

Find your drainage scheme

Most downloaded

Looking for a key document, instruction or manual? Head to these pages for our most downloaded files:

Annual Report

Raingarden instruction sheets

Healthy Waterways Strategy

Water Quality Annual Report

Wetland design manual

Corporate Plan

Example of a flood level certificate

Victoria, let’s stay safe and stay open.

Everything we’re doing is keeping us on top of this virus. So no letting up.

Let’s keep our masks on.
Keep catching up outdoors.
Keep washing our hands and keeping our distance.
Keep getting tested if we have any symptoms.
And keep looking out for each other.

Go to CORONAVIRUS.vic.gov.au