Water management
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.
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Sewerage
We manage and treat our city’s sewage, ensuring the health of our environment, our communities and our families.
Saving water
Learn about how you can save water and make a difference to our environment and our future.
Things to do
See the many ways you can get involved with Melbourne Water, whether it's through an event, citizen science program, or by discovering a new walking or bike track this weekend.
Licences and permits
Find information and apply for birdwatching access, diversion licences, dam licences and more.
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.