Useful links
Queensland | Australia | International
Links are provided here to just some of the many government agencies and organisations involved in waterway management, monitoring and community engagement.
Queensland
Government
- Department of Natural Resources and Water (NRW) - www.nrw.qld.gov.au
- Department of Local Government contact list of local councils -www.lgp.qld.gov.au
- Department of Primary Industries & Fisheries (DPI&F) sustainable agriculture and waterways - www.dpi.qld.gov.au/agsip
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - www.epa.qld.gov.au
Industry
- Agforce Queensland - www.agforceqld.org.au
- Canegrowers - www.canegrowers.com.au
- Growcom - www.growcom.com.au
- Queensland Farmers Federation - www.qff.org.au
Water suppliers
Find your local water supplier - www.nrw.qld.gov.au/compliance/wic/water_authorities_info.html
Some of the main supplier websites:
- Cairns Water - www.cairnswater.qld.gov.au
- Fitzroy River Water - www.frw.com.au
- Gladstone Area Water Board - www.gawb.qld.gov.au
- Gold Coast Water - www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au
- NQ Water - www.nqwater.com.au
- SEQ Water - www.seqwater.com.au
- SunWater - www.sunwater.com.au
Research
- Catchment to Reef (C2R) - www.catchmenttoreef.com.au
- Griffith University Australian Rivers Institute - www.griffith.edu.au
- Water Quality Online - www.wqonline.info
Community and non-government organisations
- Landcare Queensland - www.landcare.org.au
- Local Government Association of Queensland - www.lgaq.asn.au
- Queensland Water and Land Carers Inc (QWaLC) for local community NRM groups - www.qwalc.org.au
- Regional Groups Collective (RGC) lists all Regional NRM Bodies - www.regionalgroupscollective.com.au
- South East Queensland's Healthy Waterways Partnership - www.healthywaterways.org
Other
- Queensland Regional NRM information online - www.regionalnrm.qld.gov.au
Australia
Waterwatch
- Australia - www.waterwatch.org.au
- Australian Capital Territory - www.act.waterwatch.org.au
- New South Wales - www.waterwatch.nsw.gov.au
- South Australia - www.sa.waterwatch.org.au
- Victoria - www.vic.waterwatch.org.au
- Western Australia (Ribbons of Blue) - www.wrc.wa.gov.au/ribbons
- Northern Territory (Water for Life) - http://live.greeningaustralia.org.au/GA/NT/
Government
- Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) - www.bom.gov.au
- Bureau of Rural Sciences - www.daffa.gov.au/brs
- Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) -www.daffa.gov.au
- Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA) -www.environment.gov.au
- Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN) - www.environment.gov.au/erin/
- Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) - www.gbrmpa.gov.au
- Land and Water Australia (LWA) - http://lwa.gov.au
- Murray Darling Basin Commission - www.mdbc.gov.au
- National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality - www.napswq.gov.au
- Natural Heritage Trust (NHT) - www.nht.gov.au
- National Land and Water Resources Audit - www.nlwra.gov.au
- River Landscapes - www.rivers.gov.au
Research
- Australian River Assessment System (AUSRIVAS) - http://ausrivas.canberra.edu.au
- Australian Agriculture and Natural Resources Online (AANRO) - www.aanro.net
- Australian Centre for Tropical and Freshwater Research - www.actfr.jcu.edu.au
- Australian Institute of Marine Sciences (AIMS) - www.aims.gov.au
- Coastal Cooperative Research Centre - www.coastal.crc.org.au
- Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology - www.catchment.crc.org.au
- Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology - http://freshwater.canberra.edu.au/
- Cooperative Venture for Capacity Building - www.rirdc.gov.au/capacitybuilding
- CSIRO Land and Water - www.clw.csiro.au
- CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems - www.cse.csiro.au
- eWater Cooperative Research Centre - www.ewatercrc.com.au
Industry
- National Farmers Federation - www.nff.org.au
Community and non-government organisations
- Australian Conservation Foundation - www.acfonline.org.au
- Australian Water Association - www.awa.asn.au
- Clean Up Australia - www.cleanup.com.au
- Conservation Volunteers Australia - www.conservationvolunteers.com.au
- Greening Australia - www.greeningaustralia.org.au
- Keep Australia Beautiful - www.kab.org.au
- Landcare Australia - www.landcareonline.com
International
- Ramsar Convention on Wetlands - www.ramsar.org
- University of Maryland Integration and Application Network -http://ian.umces.edu
- US EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) - www.epa.gov
- US Geological Survey Water Science for Schools -http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu
- Wetlands International - www.wetlands.org
Last updated 06 February 2008
