Latest watering releases
Based on best available operational data, the following environmental water deliveries were made in the month of January 2019.
Broken
- Delivering to lower Broken Creek
Glenelg
- Delivering to Glenelg River
Loddon
- Delivering to Loddon River
Moorabool
- Delivering to Moorabool River
Murray
- Delivering to Gunbower Creek
- Delivering flows through Mullaroo Creek at Lindsay Island
Werribee
- Delivering to Werribee River
Wimmera
- Delivering to Wimmera River, lower Mt William Creek, MacKenzie River and Burnt Creek
Releases can include water delivered in Victoria by the Victorian Environmental Water Holder, Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder and the Murray-Darling Basin Authority (The Living Murray program).
Environmental watering objectives may also be met by other water in the system (such as water for households, industry and farming).
How do we know it works?
To measure the success of environmental watering, it is important to draw on the large body of scientific and community knowledge that exists about Victoria’s rivers and wetlands.
Learn MoreSeasonal watering plan
A statewide plan that scopes potential environmental watering in rivers and wetlands.
Learn MoreRivers and wetlands
- • Barmah Forest
- • Gunbower Creek and Forest
- • Central Murray wetlands
- • Hattah Lakes
- • Lower Murray wetlands
- • Lindsay, Wallpolla and Mulcra
- • Ovens system
- • Goulburn River
- • Goulburn wetlands
- • Broken River and Upper Broken Creek
- • Lower Broken Creek
- • Broken wetlands
- • Campaspe River
- • Coliban River
- • Loddon River system (including Tullaroop, Serpentine and Pyramid creeks)
- • Boort wetlands
- • Birchs Creek
Environmental water stories
Restoring chaos
Water is the magic ingredient in the Australian landscape - its presence a flag that signals to our plants and animals when to bloom and breed and travel. But with many river systems altered beyond recognition, is there still a future for the many creatures that rely on the highs and lows of naturally flowing water? BirdLife Australia’s Darren Quin and the VEWH’s Bruce Paton examine the promising results of environmental water releases at Victoria’s Lake Cullen and reveal that all is not yet lost.
Gaynor Swamp - exciting results for environmental watering in the Goulburn Wetlands
In an exciting first for the Goulburn Wetlands, Gaynor Swamp received 1100 megalitres of environmental water as part of the environmental watering program in 2018.
News and media releases
Update - Water sale in northern Victoria
The VEWH announced the sale of up to 10 gigalitres of allocation in northern Victoria on 15 March 2019. This sale of allocation has now been completed.
Water sale in northern Victoria 2019
The Victorian Environmental Water Holder (VEWH) will sell a small portion of its water allocation in the northern Victorian water market. Up to 10 gigalitres of Murray allocation will be made available through selected brokers from March this year.
Water for the environment is for everyone
Reflections: Water for the Environment in Victoria 2017-18 demonstrates that waterways are at the heart of healthy communities and have been strengthened by the establishment of Victoria’s environmental watering program.