Driving national water reform
Managing our water more effectively is one of the most important and urgent challenges facing Australia.
The National Water Commission is the lead Australian Government agency for driving national water reform under the National Water Initiative - Australia's blueprint for how water will be managed into the future.
- National Water Initiative
The Commission manages the:
- Raising National Water Standards Program
- National Groundwater Action Plan
Helping Canberra gardeners get it right
The Parliamentary Secretary for Water, Dr Mike Kelly, and the ACT Minister for the Environment, Climate Change and Water, Simon Corbell, launched two new web tools to help Canberra gardeners use water more wisely and save money at the same time. Read the media release.
Australian Water Governance
Australian Water Governance 2006, an online resource that illustrates institutional architecture and legislative and administrative arrangements nationally and in each Australian state and territory has been reviewed, updated and re-released. The updated arrangements are featured in the latest edition of the Commission's monthly e-newsletter, Distilled. Also in this edition, articles on our Stakeholder Forum and a Waterlines report on pulsed river flows and whether they achieve their aims.