After another 12 months of rigorous monitoring and reporting, we are excited to announce the results of the 2020 Report Card. The Report Card provides a comprehensive regional assessment of the health of each of South East Queensland’s major catchments, river estuaries, and Moreton Bay zones.

The Report Card aims to: 

1. Enhance community quality of life.
2. Foster stewardship.
3. Protect and restore waterway health.

South East Queenslanders have long enjoyed the lifestyle, cultural, and economic benefits of the region’s expansive, diverse, and scenic waterways and continued to do so during a tumultuous year.

Key findings:

• Sources of water pollution require ongoing management to prevent catchment decline.
• Critical wetland habitats dwindle as the human population increases.
• Local waterways provide refuge for communities during a challenging year of drought, bushfires, COVID-19, and economic uncertainty.

Explore the 2020 Report Card results to learn more about the health of your catchment, discover the on-ground work happening in your area, and find out how you can play a part in keeping South East Queensland’s waterways clean and healthy.

Waterways are more important to us than ever, reportedly having a calming, therapeutic, and restorative effect on people during a challenging time of drought, bushfires, and especially COVID-19 and its ensuing economic hardship.

Opportunities for recreation and social activities such as swimming and fishing are greater in catchments with good water quality. Investment in projects to protect and improve catchments and their waterways will continue to support the health of our communities as well as bolster long-term economic recovery.

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