Protect your local waterway with our Waterwatch citizen science programs: count frogs, platypus or waterbugs, test water quality or take part in litter action.

Find out how you can use our land for community projects that enhance liveability, or for individual or commercial use.

Colouring sheets featuring waterbugs, frogs and platypus from our citizen science programs.

Learn about grants available to support innovation, liveability and collaboration across water management, and improve river health.

If you have been engaged to complete work for Melbourne Water, you must adhere to the relevant safety procedures.

River Detectives is a free, fun and flexible statewide citizen science program designed for schools.

Before you start building, renovating or sub-dividing, make sure your plans meet our criteria for flood, water asset and waterway protection.

Building surveyors and councils won’t issue a building permit unless you have our written approval to work or build near our assets such as pipes, drains and water mains.

Before you apply to councils for a town planning or building permit, you must find out if your property is near or within any Melbourne Water easements or assets – such as drains, sewers or water mains.

If we need ‘as constructed’ plans for the asset near your property, you’ll need to engage a licensed surveyor and Service Detection Locators to prove its location.