Latest watering releases
Based on best available operational data, the following environmental water deliveries were made in the month of June 2024.
The watering year ends on 30 June 2024, and data on releases are currently being compiled. This section will be updated in July 2024 .
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
- • Upper Murray wetlands
- • Lindsay, Mulcra and Wallpolla islands
- • 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
- • Birch Creek
Water for the environment stories
A milestone fishway infrastructure investment by the VEWH
For the first time in over a century, native fish will be able to move freely between the Murray River and Gunbower Creek with the launch of two new fishways at Koondrook and Cohuna in northern central Victoria.
Creature Feature: The venomous red-bellied black snake
When you’re out and about this summer make sure you keep an eye out for our slithery friend: the venomous red-bellied black snake.
News and media releases
Media release: Environmental watering to build on gains from wet years
Victoria's regulated rivers will receive environmental flows in 2024-25 to continue improving conditions for native plants and animals, including birds and fish, to build on the gains from recent wet years.
Media Release: Victorian Environmental Water Holder to trade carryover space
The Victorian Environmental Water Holder (VEWH) intends to lease temporary carryover space in high-reliability water entitlement in Goulburn and Murray systems between April and June 2024.
Media Release: Victorian Environmental Water Holder to trade water allocation
The Victorian Environmental Water Holder (VEWH) intends to sell up to 47,000 megalitres (ML) of allocation water, also known as temporary water, from the Murray, Goulburn and Campaspe systems between February and June 2024.