Commonwealth Environmental Water Office
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Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder
The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder is responsible for government policies and programs that seek to protect and restore environmental assets – rivers, floodplains and wetlands – that contain a wide diversity of life and provide habitat for native animals and plants.
The Water Holder, supported by the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office, manages the Commonwealth’s environmental water portfolio, research projects that inform approaches to aquatic ecosystems and environmental watering policy, and major projects to improve water quality and the ecological health of iconic wetland assets in the Murray Darling Basin. The Office is also the administrative authority within Australia for the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance.