Environmental water management

Environmental water management

Hydro Tasmania looks beyond managing water only for use in electricity generation, find out more > 

Our water licence means we have stewardship of the six Tasmanian water catchments in which we operate – making us the largest water manager in Australia.

Our extensive monitoring programs covers obligations for river and lake levels, water quality and biological  information on water bodies we manage, including the impact on the waterways from Basslink operation.

Sharing this information is important, so we provide data to other stakeholders. We also publish river and lake levels, where available in near real-time, on this website. Formally, we prepare and present annual compliance monitoring reports to the Tasmanian Minister for Primary Industry and Water on monitored data, issues and mitigating actions.

Going one step further - on a voluntary basis we monitor water bodies to address key issues, such as the recent research into the ecology of threatened fish species.

In 2011 we established a systematic, rotational environmental monitoring and assessment program, starting in the Mersey-Forth catchment covering seven lakes and four rivers.  This information provides a base level of understanding as we begin a water management review in the catchment.

We also have measures in place to manage situations where we must operate with low lake levels, find out more >