" eWater development teams have designed and assembled five major new software tools, or sets of tools, for use in the ecological management of rivers and floodplains. "

Eco Modeller: allows you to build and store quantitative models of ecological response to physical and biological factors (such as river flow), for use in exploring various solutions to problems.
eFlow Predictor: the eFlow Predictor tool helps identify the most beneficial patterns of flow release or delivery for a given environmental flow.
Catchment Planning Tool: works out how to optimise management of areas with various degrees of conservation value within a catchment, and predicts the biodiversity value of river reaches.
Concept: a drawing package for constructing dynamic conceptual models showing the main elements of a river ecosystem and their reactions to scenarios.
Integrated Monitoring Tools: a series of tools and information resources for helping with monitoring designs, data analysis, and defensible assessments. They include:
- Causal Criteria: a product comprising two tools that can be used independently or linked together for analysing scientific evidence and assessing its strength and quality. The Causal Criteria Evidence Database (CCED) returns a list of studies and metadata concerning associations between X and Y, and the Causal Criteria Analysis Software (CCAS) provides a mechanism to evaluate the strength of evidence supporting a causal link between X and Y, allowing stronger inference.
- Water quality analyser: a decision-support system for water-quality data-processing and analysis. It contains eGuides (electronic documents), Water quality guideline tool, Pollutant load estimation tool, Trend analysis tool and Time series data manager.

These add to tools already available for river restoration via the Catchment Modelling Toolkit.

Concept has been released already, and in fact formed the basis of the popular online game Catchment Detox, hosted by the ABC and played tens of thousands of times since late August at www.catchmentdetox.net.au.

The other new tools (working titles only) at present are prototypes or beta products. They are being further developed and refined during application trials (road-tests) in focus catchments to help solve real-world issues. For example, Eco Modeller is on trial by partners working on areas of the Living Murray Icon Sites, the Mt Lofty Ranges, the Yarra River, and SE Queensland.

All new and existing tools are being refined through continuing eWater research. They are based on existing research findings and knowledge, and are designed to suit the needs of a range of eWater's water-industry partners.

Existing restoration tools available at the Catchment Modelling Toolkit are: