Licences and permits
Find information and apply for birdwatching access, diversion licences, dam licences and more.
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Water quality
Melbourne has some of the highest-quality drinking water in the world, and our water tastes great from the tap.
Traditional Owner partners and community
At Melbourne Water, we understand the central role water plays in our communities, environment and economy.
Spartina management in Western Port estuaries
We’re undertaking a ten-year program to completely eradicate Spartina, an introduced grass species, from Western Port by 2025.
We Will Walk Country Together
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.
Maribyrnong Flood Review update
An independently-led review will be undertaken into the October 2022 Maribyrnong River flood.
Essex Street Main Drain Rehabilitation
We're performing upgrades to the Essex Street Main Drain - one of Melbourne Water's significant drains in the South Yarra and Prahran catchment.
Living Links
Living Links is a large scale, long-term urban nature program working in partnership to create a web of green spaces across Melbourne’s south-east.
Reel Big Fish – Western Port
Reel Big Fish – Western Port is a three-year project that aims to improve and increase the extent of suitable habitat for recreational fish species in Western Port while also increasing knowledge and building capacity with the recreational fishing community.
Grow West
Grow West is a long-term, collaborative environmental program working to rejuvenate degraded landscapes in the Upper Werribee Catchment and create vegetation connections between the YouYangs Regional Park, Brisbane Ranges National Park, Werribee Gorge State Park and Lerderderg State Park.