Waterwatch Australia charter
Waterwatch Australia
Australian Government Department of the Environment and Heritage
Contents
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- Our goal
- Our purpose
- Our objectives
- Our vision
- Our mission
- Our values
Our goal
To empower community groups and individuals to be active in the protection and management of waterways.
Our purpose
To build the capacity of community and school groups in water and catchment issues.
To support a national community water monitoring network that collects credible, reliable and useful data for natural resource management.
Our objectives
Establish and maintain community water monitoring programs.
Heighten awareness, understanding and knowledge of water issues and their relationship to catchment health.
Foster community involvement in planning, decision making and action to address waterway and catchment health issues.
Create and maintain effective partnerships between all sectors of the community.
Our vision
Healthy waterways.
Our mission
Through community-based water monitoring, education and partnerships, increase community understanding of the need to change management practices leading to improved water quality and catchment health.
Our values
Waterwatch is catchment focused based on the principle that everything that happens in a catchment can have downstream effects.
Community participation is vital to ensure effective environmental management. Education is a fundamental element of environmental management.
Shared responsibility and collaborative action is achieved through effective partnerships.
Community monitoring leads to environmental action. Local knowledge is valuable.
The causes of environmental problems must be addressed, not just the symptoms. Changing attitudes and values leads to behavioural change. Waterwatch supports on-ground action by communities.
Download the charter
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