Watertrust Australia Limited
In 2020, Colonial Foundation joined a greenfields initiative seeking to develop an effective and workable long-term water and catchment policy to safeguard Australia’s freshwater security and ensure sustainable management of these critical resources. The initiative created a new national and fully independent water and catchment policy centre, known as Watertrust Australia.
Watertrust Australia’s operations are being funded by a collaboration of more than fifteen philanthropic organisations, collectively committing more than $30 million over ten years.
Watertrust Australia acknowledges that there are a wide range of stakeholders affected by Australia’s water policy and their vision is to convene the development of water and catchment policy and management decisions that citizens and decision-makers see as fair, reasonable and consistent with the available evidence.
The Centre continues to successfully convene and engage with a wide range of stakeholders, including policymakers, politicians, government agencies, academic experts, farmers, First Peoples, land and water managers, corporations, financiers and regional and urban communities in the collaborative evolution of water and catchment policy.
