Learn about water in the environment with educational activities and resources, including citizen science initiatives.

Community groups can book a guided tour or virtual excursion to our water and sewage treatment plants, or wetlands education centre.

Browse our Teacher Toolbox to find water related resources to use in your classroom.

Welcome to Melbourne’s World of Water - an interactive 3D map.

When wastewater leaves homes and businesses it is piped to a sewage treatment plant. Learn more about what happens next.

A network of stormwater pipes has been built across our cities to remove this excess water when it rains. Learn more.

The amount of water in our environment is influenced by the type of climate. Across Australia, there are six broad climate zones. Climate is the average weather conditions of a place for a long period of time, while weather is the atmospheric conditions (hot day, rain, cool conditions) for a brief period of time.

The Lower Dandenong Creek Litter Collaboration brings together the Cities of Casey, Greater Dandenong and Kingston, Parks Victoria, Melbourne Water and the EPA to tackle litter at a catchment scale.

Like you, we don't like seeing litter being washed off streets into stormwater drains and into our waterways.

Sea level rise is projected to increase over the next 100 years as a result of climate change, worsening coastal inundation. Please refer to our Interim Development Assessment Principles while our 2017 Planning for Sea Level Rise Guidelines are being updated.