Flooding and its impacts
Floods are a natural part of our weather cycle. Know the types of flooding that could occur and how they might impact you.
2290 results for flood resilient homes guide
PageUp data breach update
Melbourne Water is one of a number of organisations who use PageUp to manage their recruitment activity.
Drainage system
Melbourne’s drainage system directs stormwater away from urban areas to reduce the risk of flooding, but extreme rainfall can still sometimes cause floods.
Retarding basins
Retarding basins play an important role in reducing flood risk, temporarily storing stormwater during very high rainfall.
Your future
Melbourne Water’s service offering is constantly evolving to meet the challenges related to population growth, empowered customer expectations, increased cost of living, urbanisation and impacts of climate change.
Grants
Learn about grants available to support innovation, liveability and collaboration across water management, and improve river health.
Liveable Communities, Liveable Waterways Program
Access funding for initiatives that support healthy people, places and environments, through our flexible incentives program – open all year round.
Waterway and stormwater management grants: case studies
Learn about some of the partnerships Melbourne Water has fostered with our customers and community in waterway and stormwater management.
Liveable Communities, Liveable Waterways Program privacy statement
Melbourne Water respects the privacy of your personal information and we collect and handle it in accordance with the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic).
Biogas
We generate electricity by combusting biogas, captured from our sewage treatment lagoons and anaerobic digesters.