With the impacts of climate change and population growth, we need to work together to make every drop count.

We work with the retail water companies and other non-metropolitan water businesses to supply drinking and recycled water water, and to remove and treat sewerage.

Melbourne Water touches all parts of the water cycle that are essential to our way of life: from providing clean drinking water, treating sewage, planning that manages flooding, and keeping Melbourne’s rivers, creeks and catchments healthy.

Find information and apply for birdwatching access, diversion licences, dam licences and more.

Melbourne has some of the highest-quality drinking water in the world, and our water tastes great from the tap.

At Melbourne Water, we understand the central role water plays in our communities, environment and economy.

Melbourne Water respectfully acknowledges the Bunurong, Gunaikurnai, Taungurung, Wadawurrung and Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung peoples as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land and water on which we rely and operate. We pay our deepest respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.

This series of activity sheets introduce students to the animals in their local waterways through indoor and outdoor tasks.

This introductory guide steps through running a waterbug sampling session, which complements water science analysis and provides an assessment of waterway health.