Explore leading-edge projects that showcase our commitment to research and innovation – supporting continuous improvement of our services, and our progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development goals.

Floods are a natural part of Melbourne’s weather. We can’t stop them from happening, but we can all play a role in minimising their impacts.

At Melbourne Water, we have been taking action and planning across 50-year time horizons to manage and protect this precious resource for our city.

We manage and treat our city’s sewage, ensuring the health of our environment, our communities and our families.

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.