As a result of the recent high rainfalls and subsequent flooding Melbourne Water is working with emergency services and other relevant agencies to review the impacts to our waterways and assets. 

Read the latest Melbourne Water news following the heavy rainfall and subsequent flooding in Melbourne, rural and regional Victoria.

Following heavy rainfall and subsequent flooding in Melbourne, rural and regional Victoria, Melbourne Water highlights it current priorities.

Melbourne Water’s Lower Werribee Waterways Amenity Action Plan won the AILAA 2023 Victorian Award of Excellence for Land Management, while its Reimagining Tarralla Creek project won an AILAA 2023 Victorian Landscape Architecture Award for Infrastructure.

Thousands of native trees and shrubs will be planted to restore the unique natural habitat along Kororoit Creek on Wurundjeri Country, as part of the celebrations for National Tree Day on Sunday, 30 July from 10am to 1pm.

Tunnelling work to build Melbourne’s newest sewer pipeline has begun, with ‘Lucey’ – Melbourne Water’s tunnel boring machine - doing all the hard work.

It might be Landcare week, but for Melbourne Water every week is, thanks to its ongoing commitment to the restoration, enhancement and protection of the environment, benefitting the community and native wildlife on the land and off.

The annual National Science Week 2023 is a celebration of science and technology, and an opportunity to recognise the outstanding scientific achievements that are happening around Melbourne Water.

To mark National Science Week, we recognise Waterwatch Coordinator Naomi Dart, who is taking critical steps to reduce waste overflow and windblown litter into nearby waterways as part of our Platypus Program.