As outlined in Technologies and Research, from mid 2008, eWater's product development and research are organised into four core topics: River systems, Urban systems, Catchments & climate, Ecological management.

Leading up to this, during 2006-2008 (July), eWater CRC's product development was organised in 9 projects, supported by 20 concurrent research projects. The aims of the projects (identified by letter-number codes) were as listed below. A broader outline of each is given in the summary booklet 'Innovation in water research and product development' (pdf file). The busy leaders of these projects, who also had management and development work on the go in their own organisations, were a vital part of eWater's history.

Former projects for product development

River operations and management:

• P1: River operations and seasonal planning product. This project aims to create a software product that will improve the capacity of users to manage river systems on a daily and seasonal basis.
• P2: RiverManager product. This project is developing a platform for eWater's development of the next generation of river planning, management and operation tools, and a specific application, the 'RiverManager', which river planners and managers can use to assist in their work.

Urban water systems:

• P3: Cluster-scale urban product. The role of this project is to create a product that helps stakeholders (including both non-technical and technical users) in their management of urban water issues at the lot to suburb scale.
• P4: Regional-scale urban product. Project P4 aims to create a product that allows managers to maximise the water use efficiency, supply options, and water-cycle performance, minimise water-quality impacts and promote urban stream ecology, at catchment to regional scale.

Water and constituent simulation:

• P5: Water and constituent simulation product (WaterCAST). This project is building a software tool (WaterCAST) for predicting and managing the constituents of catchment runoff, in rural and peri-urban areas with varying land-use, climate and disturbances.

River and catchment restoration:

• P6: Restoration, planning and prioritisation product. The role of this project is to develop tools that support natural resource management for rivers, through effective planning and design, in both conservation and restoration.

Integrated monitoring and assessment:

• P7: Integrated monitoring and assessment systems (IMAS). This project is producing software tools and guidelines that enable users to design water-quality monitoring plans (both technically sound and economically feasible) for their fresh and estuarine waters.

'Product technologies' program:
'Product technologies' projects comprised both research and product development.

• R1: Software product development. This project is developing the main software elements of eWater products.
• R2: Ecological modelling platform. The platform being developed in this project is the basis for quantitative modelling of ecological response in other eWater products.