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 Environment and Resource Management (DERM) - www.derm.qld.gov.au 
• Local government directory for Queensland www.dip.qld.gov.au/local-government-directory/index.php 

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 -http://www.derm.qld.gov.au/water/regulation/water_authorities_info.html

Some of the main supplier websites:  

• Cairns: Our Cairns Water - www.ourcairnswater.com.au/contacts.htm
• 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 

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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.ribbonsofblue.wa.gov.au/ 

Government

• Bureau of Meteorology (BoM) - www.bom.gov.au
• Bureau of Rural Sciences - www.daff.gov.au/brs/about  
• Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) - www.daff.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) [archive] - http://lwa.gov.au 
• Murray Darling Basin Commission - www.mdbc.gov.au
• National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality [archive] - www.napswq.gov.au  
• Natural Heritage Trust (NHT) [archive] - www.nht.gov.au  
• National Land and Water Resources Audit [archive] -www.environment.gov.au/land/nlwra/index.html 
• River Landscapes [archive] - lwa.gov.au/programs/river-landscapes 

Research

• Australian River Assessment System (AUSRIVAS) - http://ausrivas.canberra.edu.au
• 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 [archive] -www.ozcoasts.org.au/search_data/crc_rpts.jsp
• Cooperative Research Centre for Catchment Hydrology [archive] - www.ozcoasts.org.au/search_data/crc_rpts.jsp 
• Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology - http://freshwater.canberra.edu.au/
• 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

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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

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Last updated 21 February 2011