Integrated Water Management Framework for Victoria

We’ve produced the Integrated Water Management Framework for Victoria to help us all - government, the community and the water sector - work together to plan, manage and deliver water in Victoria’s towns and cities.

• Download the Framework: Integrated Water Management Framework for Victoria (PDF, 9.8 MB)

Our goal is to deliver greater community value. The Framework shows how we can do this through consistent and strategic collaboration within the water sector – including water corporations, local governments and catchment management authorities – and through their links with organisations involved in land use planning. The approach in the Framework works with and feeds into existing water and land planning processes.

An Australian first: this is the first time that the systematic application of collaborative integrated water management has been designed and promoted at a state-wide scale in an Australian context and the Victorian Government looks forward to working with the water sector to implement it.

Integrated Water Management

The Victorian water sector is working together to create better outcomes for communities through the implementation of integrated water management (actions 5.7 and 5.8, Water for Victoria).

Integrated water management is a collaborative approach to planning. We bring together organisations that influence all elements of the water cycle including:

• waterways and bays
• wastewater management
• alternative and potable water supply
• stormwater management
• water treatment

Integrated Water Management Forums

An unprecedented opportunity to progress water cycle planning and management in Victoria through collaboration.  

The Integrated Water Management Forums have been established across the state to identify, prioritise and oversee the implementation of collaborative water opportunities. The Forums bring together all organisations with an interest in water cycle, recognising that each has an important role to play in the management of our most vital resource.   

Victoria's Integrated Water Management Forums will produce a Strategic Directions Statement that captures the regional context, shared vision and water-related outcomes for each of the 15 Forum areas across metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria.  

Each Strategic Directions Statement includes a list of integrated water management opportunities collaboratively developed by the Forum to bring local community views, values and priorities into practice through integrated water management.