Fresh water — our work
Our campaigns team tackles big environmental issues, and water is no exception. With a history of work at important sites across Australia, including the Murray-Darling Basin, our goal is that by 2010 the decline in Australia’s fresh water biodiversity will have been reversed.
We need to create vitally important public, political and corporate support to help find, implement and promote innovative and practical solutions for water use and fresh water biodiversity for the benefit of all Australians.
We are aiming high. We want:
the protection of the most important fresh water ecosystems on public and private lands
new and more sustainable approaches to managing tropical river basins, coastal and inland catchments
the identification and removal of redundant and environmentally harmful dams and weirs
the restoration and rehabilitation of degraded wetlands through the re-establishment of adequate environmental flows in our most heavily used river systems
the recovery and management of threatened freshwater biodiversity
the improvement of water quality for the Great Barrier Reef.
To achieve our goals, we need:
major and far reaching improvements in national and state water policy
an overhaul of practices in major water using-industry sectors like agriculture and mining.
Developing and advocating specific policies for sustainable water use and fresh water biodiversity conservation will go a long way to reverse the decline of Australia’s water resources. We will work with state and national governments to get there.