Catchment Management

This network aims to create opportunities for sharing and evolving knowledge to progress the field of Catchment Management across Australia. Through doing this we build cohesive collegial networks and aim to develop leading edge practices that foster collaboration and integration together with other areas of the water sector and across Australia.

What is Catchment Management?

Catchment management, and in particular Integrated Catchment Management (ICM), has the objective of improving and integrating the management of land, water and related biological resources in order to achieve the sustainable and balanced use of these resources.

ICM is the involvement of agencies, stakeholders and general public in policy making, planning, and management to promote sustainable use of natural resources and protect and improve the quality and quantity of water and the environment the water originates from.

One way to achieve the objectives of ICM is through the adoption of uniform principles that are flexible enough to develop management programs adapted to local conditions. The adoption of uniform national principles would facilitate a comprehensive audit and evaluation of catchment management programs, and modifications to be devised and implemented. At present there are no consistent national standards for catchment management across all states and territories.

For more information, see our ACTION PLAN

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LATEST NEWS		UPCOMING EVENTS
April 2013 Latest newsletter out now! Highlights include: Victorian Catchment Condition Reporting United Kingdom’s Catchment Management Hub (CCM Hub) People Linking Landscapes QRC welcomes Fitzroy River salinity management scheme World first effort to make biochar on-farm from woody weeds A different kind of tweet Clean waterways are everyone’s business Peter Cullen Trust Science to Policy Leadership Program Animal Waste, Water Quality and Human Health New Tools For Managing Risks To Catchment Water Quality Western CMA Project Results Landcare under threat February 2013 Latest newsletter out now! Highlights include: Have your say on Upper Murrumbidgee thresholds Sydney CMA merges with Hawkesbury-Nepean CMA Historic Murray-Darling Basin legislation passes parliament New insights into managing our water resources Article - Introduction to the special issue: ‘Achieving ecological outcomes’. Why is translational ecology so difficult?' Report – 'Water Research Foundation: Quantifying the Benefits of Water Quality Catchment (Watershed) Management Initiatives' Find your copy in your inbox. Not received it? Check you're a member of this network HERE or get in touch at networks@awa.asn.au January 2013 Catchment Management feature in April edition of Water Don't miss the opportunity to feature the work you’ve been doing and to share what you’ve learned with your fellow Catchment Management professionals. Let us know if you’d like to contribute by 18 January. You’ll then have until 15 February to submit your article or paper. Interested or want to find out more? Contact the Water Journal Managing Editor, Anne Lawton, by emailing alawton@awa.asn.au December 2012 New committee meet to plan network's future After an open-call for new members, a committee has been appointed for the Catchment Management Specialist Network for the 2012-14 period. The committee has seven new members who will bring a new perspective and help drive the network forward over the next two years. Details of the committee can be found HERE The committee met for a full day of review and planning, and a draft version of the 2012-14 action plan will be available for comment in the New Year. September 2012 Latest Catchment Management newsletter now available In this update: Join your specialist network committee World Health Organisation / IWA Paper Catchment Management conference, Tasmania Interview study - Understanding Uptake of Decision Support Models in Natural Resource Management Not received it? CLICK HERE to check that you have this network in your member preferences. Contact levanson@awa.asn.au for your copy. April 2012 In August 2011, AWA’s Catchment Management Specialist Network held their National Conference in Wangaratta, Victoria. The event’s theme was ‘Healthy Catchments, Healthy Communities’ and attracted over 150 delegates. The program committee reviewed the papers submitted and the presentations given at the conference, and decided on the top five papers, whose authors are: Dr John Williams, Natural Resources Commission Wayne Tennant, Goulburn Broken CMA (co-authors Pat Feehan, Feehan Consulting and Lydia Drake, Goulburn-Murray Water) Karla Billington, Natural Logic (co-author Dan Deere, Water Futures) Andrew Watkinson - SEQ Water Martin Krogh - NSW Office of Environment and Heritage These papers have been published in the April 2012 issue of the Water Journal. Water can also be viewed online by logging into the AWA website here - ACCESS WATER JOURNAL All the papers presented at the conference can be downloaded by members from AWA’s Online Document Library		To find out when our next event is being held, please contact the network committee More AWA events can be found here. Got any ideas for our network? We are driven by our member's interests, so why not send us an email and let's see what we can do!
We are driven by our member's interests. If you have any ideas for a project this network could work on to advance Catchment Management, just send us an email and let's see what we can do! If you would like to contribute to this section, please email us for more information.

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