Each month, content for Melbourne Water's homepage is framed around a strategic theme. Content is sourced from the content community.

Framed around our healthy people, healthy environment and healthy places pillars, our core themes are:

This guide is written to reduce the amount of PDFs on the website, thereby making more content accessible to our customers and eliminating duplication. According to the content audit from August 2019, there are 1600 PDFs live and searchable from Drupal, with low views and downloads according to Google Analytics.

Why PDFs are not ideal for web

PDFs generally are best consumed as printed items. The problem with PDFs in a digital context is that they are a barrier to content.

Start by summarising the purpose of the page for your intended audience. Lead with a verb, use second-person 'you/your' pronouns, and aim for less than 150 characters or two lines.

Following current Melbourne Water brand guidelines, the existing positive colour version is required to be used in headers/footers.

Following current Melbourne Water brand guidelines, the exiting colour palette will remain the same.

Heading and body typeface is Bliss.

The design must inspire courage, engage, make an impact and show integrity.