Current programs

Water Ecosystem and Resource Management Policy.

Ongoing program operated by Standards Australia acknowledging and promoting good design. Some products address water conservation issues.

The Australian Water Quality Centre provides expertise on water quality issues through an integrated service including sampling, analysis, advice and research.

Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney

The Clean Site program looks to prevent pollution from building and construction sites entering our waterways and polluting our environment.

The Urban Water Resources Group (UWRG) undertakes research into collection, treatment, greywater recycling, storage, retrieval and use of urban water resources.

The central idea of the Sustainability Street approach is that people get together as local communities, learn about sustainability, then do what they can & encourage, assist or 'teach' other individuals or other communities to join the groundswell.

Links to member water companies and authorities as well as related education initiatives. Also features a regular newsletter about VicWater's activities.

A voluntary rating/labelling scheme that provides information on the relative water efficiency of various appliances, using a scale of up to five As. Will be superseded by WELS, but labels will co-exist until 2008.

A new compulsory labelling scheme, currently being phased in and will be compulsory from January 2008. Uses a scale of up to six stars to demonstrate an appliance's water usage.