• Tools for ecological management, including monitoring & assessment or restoration of freshwaters and floodplains;
• Tools for forecasting and managing catchment water yield and quality in variable and changing climates and land-uses;
• Tools for integrated management of urban water, including water security;
• Tools for managing and operating rural river systems and water supplies.

These 'next-generation' software tools link water management to land-use practices, at a range of scales - from small (down to lot-scale in urban areas) to very large.

The models are flexible - they can work alone or be brought together into suites for larger-scale work - and they combine quite different branches of knowledge relevant to an issue.

All eWater CRC's tools (new and existing) are tested by user groups and refined before being released via the Catchment Modelling Toolkit - the well-known delivery website. eWater manages and supports this Toolkit website.

Tried and tested

eWater tools are sent out for 'road-testing' in real-world situations in focus catchments across eastern Australia.

'Road-testing' the tools allows the research and development teams to see how the tools perform, and to refine them in response to feedback, to ensure they are user-friendly and robust.

Good value

eWater's tools are:

• Founded on research performed by experts in their fields,
• Built by technological experts of proven ability,
• Robust, being designed to meet the needs of a range of eWater’s water-industry partner organisations,
• Modular and interoperable, so they can be adapted to suit a number of situations,
• Flexible, allowing users to apply a range of approaches to suit their situations,
• Built in a common well-tested modelling environment (TIME - The Invisible Modelling Environment),
• Integrated, calling on hydrological, climatological, ecological and economic submodels and databases,
• Supported by usergroups and professional training.