High Level Guidance
- State water plan 2007
- State water strategy for Western Australia
- Water Corporation: Water forever
- Western Australian Climate Action and Sustainability Strategy
State Planning Policies and Guidelines
- Department of Water: Constructed lakes in the Perth metropolitan area and South West region (600kb)
- Department of Water: The interim guidelines for developing a local water management strategy (12Mb)
- Department of Water: Urban water management plans: Guidelines for preparing plans and for complying with subdivision conditions (5Mb)
- Planning for Dewatering Affecting the Swan Canning Development Control Area (Corporate Policy Statement No. 50)
- Planning for Land Use, Development and Permitting Affecting the Swan Canning Development Control Area (Corporate Policy Statement No. 42)
- Planning for Stormwater Management Affecting the Swan Canning Development Control Area (Corporate Policy Statement No. 49)
- State planning policy 2.9
- State Planning Policy 2.9 - Planning for Water Guidelines
- State Planning Policy 2.10 Swan Canning River System - Repealed by State Planning Policy 2.9
- Strategic Policy 2.09 – Use of mine dewatering surplus
- Swan Canning policy and guideline list
- Urban Greening Strategy for Whadjuk (Perth) and Bindjareb (Peel)
- WAPC: Better urban water management - Replaced by State Planning Policy 2.9
- WAPC: Planning bulletin 92 urban water management
- Water monitoring guidelines for better urban water management strategies and plans
- Western Australia water in mining guideline
Regional Water Plans
- Kimberley regional water plan
- Pilbara regional water plan
- Perth-Peel regional water plan
- South West regional water plan
Department of Water Drainage and Water Management Plans
- Byford townsite drainage and water management plan
- Geographe Bay water quality improvement plan
- Jandakot drainage and water management plan : Peel main drain catchment
- Murray drainage and water management plan
- Policy framework for inland drainage
- Southern River integrated land and water management plan
- Swan urban growth corridor drainage and water management plan
Water Quality Improvement Plans
- Canning Plain WQIP – Reducing the impact of light industry on the Swan Canning Rivers through the review of local government instruments.
- Leschenault Estuary WQIP
- Peel-Harvey
- Swan-Canning
- Vasse-Wonnerup
Local WQIPs
- Bannister Creek Catchment
- Bayswater Brook
- Bennett Brook Catchment
- Bickley Brook Catchment
- Bull Creek Catchment
- Canning Plain Catchment
- Ellen Brook Catchment
- Mounts Bay Catchment
- Southern River Catchment
- St Leonards Creek Catchment
Other Resources
- Adoption guidelines for Stormwater Biofiltration Systems
- Australian rainfall and runoff
- Australian run-off quality
- Biofilter vegetation guidelines for southwest WA
- Biofilter vegetation Practice Note for southwest WA
- Code of Practice urban and peri-urban drainage modelling for Western Australia
- Decision Process for Stormwater Management in WA
- Department of Water and Environmental Regulation: Stormwater management manual for Western Australia
- Chapter 1 – Introduction
- Chapter 2 – Understanding the context
- Chapter 3 – This chapter is superseded by State Planning Policy 2.9 Planning for Water (WAPC 2025)
- Chapter 4 – This chapter is superseded by the Decision process for stormwater management in Western Australia (DWER 2017)
- Chapter 5 – Stormwater management plans
- Chapter 6 – Retrofitting
- Chapter 7 – Non-structural controls
- Chapter 8 – Education and awareness for stormwater management
- Chapter 9 – Structural Controls
- Chapter 10 – Performance management and evaluation
- Chapter 11 – Further information
- Draft specifications – groundwater separations V2 (IPWEA)
- Environmental management of groundwater abstraction from the Gnangara Mound
- MUSIC Model for Urban Stormwater Improvement Conceptualisation Guideline 2024
- Perth NRM: Sediment control for building sites
- Sediment management for builders
- Sediment management for local government
- Sediment management – Manuals and reports
- Rain garden design: Final Version of FAWB Adoption Guidelines Facility for advancing water biofiltration
- SEQ Healthy Land and Water: Specifications for bioretention filter media (2023)
- SEQ Healthy Land and Water: Improving the biology of bioretention systems (2023)
- SEQ Healthy Land and Water: Guidelines for the construction and establishment of bioretention systems and wetlands (2022)
- SEQ Healthy Land and Water: Wetland Technical Design Guidelines (2017)
- SEQ Healthy Land and Water: Guide to the Cost of Maintaining Bioretention Systems (2015)
- SEQ Healthy Land and Water: Bioretention Technical Design Guidelines (2014)
- SEQ Healthy Land and Water: Maintaining Vegetated Stormwater Assets (2012)
- SEQ Healthy Land and Water: Rectifying Vegetated Stormwater Assets (Draft - 2012)
- SEQ Healthy Land and Water: Transferring Ownership of Vegetated Stormwater Assets (2012)
- SEQ Healthy Land and Water: Deemed to Comply Solutions - Stormwater Quality Management (South East Queensland) (2010)
- SEQ Healthy Land and Water: Deemed to Comply Worked Solutions and Examples - Stormwater Quality Management (South East Queensland) (2010)
- SEQ Healthy Land and Water: Total Water Cycle Management Planning Guideline for South East Queensland (2010)
- SEQ Healthy Land and Water: Stormwater Harvesting Guidelines (2009)
- Stormwater Pollution Educational Awareness Campaign
- Water resource considerations when controlling groundwater levels in urban development
- Western Australian WSUD info sheets
Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling
- NWQMS Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling: Augmentation of Drinking Water Supplies – May 2008
- NWQMS Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling: Managed Aquifer Recharge – July 2009
- NWQMS Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling: Managing Health and Environmental Risks – Nov 2006
- NWQMS Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling: Stormwater Harvesting and Reuse – July 2009
- Overview Document – Australian Guidelines for Water Recycling: Managing Health and Environmental Risks – Phase 1 – Mar 2006
- Recycled Water Quality: A guide to determining, monitoring and achieving safe concentrations of chemicals in recycled water – Uniquest – May 2008
Framework for the use of Non-Drinking water in WA
- Guidelines for the approval of non-drinking water systems in Western Australia – urban developments
- Department of Water and Environmental Regulation - Water Recycling
Managed aquifer recharge
- Australian Guidelines for Managed Aquifer Recharge
- Feasibility of managed aquifer recharge using drainage water study
- Operational policy 1.01 — Managed aquifer recharge in Western Australia
- South Australian Stormwater Harvesting Schemes
Other publications
- CSIRO: Water: Science and Solutions for Australia
- Master Plumbers Association handbook on greywater design and installation (2.45MB)
- Master Plumbers Association handbook on rainwater tank design and installation
- Requirements for installation of rainwater and greywater systems in Australia (1.7MB)
- Requirements for installation of rainwater and greywater systems in Australia – executive summary (57KB)
- Water Corporation sewer mining information sheet
- Water Corporation dual reticulation (non-drinking water) schemes
WA Department of Health guidelines
- Code of Practice for the Reuse of Greywater in Western Australia 2010
- Guidelines for the Non-Potable Uses of Recycled Water in Western Australia
- National Public Health Partnership: Guidance on use of rainwater tanks
- Urban rainwater tanks: Urban rainwater collection
Water Corporation information for builders and developers
- Here is an information source developed to assist land developers consider non-drinking water schemes. Land developers are encouraged to engage with Water Corporation early in the planning process to avoid unnecessary costs and save time.
- Department of Water: North West corridor water supply strategy
- Department of Water: Water efficiency
- Irrigation Australia – Urban Irrigation Best Management Practices (for purchase)
- Water Corporation – Waterwise
- Water Corporation – Waterwise verge best practice guidelines
Other Resources
- Alliance for Water Efficiency (USA): Program experiences of the US and ideas you can use (pdf)
- CRC for Irrigation Futures: Irrigation of urban green spaces: A review of the environmental, social and economic benefits
- Great Gardens (Free gardening workshops by the Forever Project)
- Landscape Industries Association Western Australia: Waterwise garden landscapers
- Perth Region NRM: Coastal Gardens – A planting guide for the Perth coastal region
- Rewild Perth - Bring nature home
- University of Western Australia: School of Plant Biology: Turf research programme
- Water Corporation: Waterwise hints and tips
- Water Corporation: Waterwise plants for Western Australia
- Objectives, outcomes, criteria, indicators and targets for water sensitive communities.
- Institute of Public Works Engineering Australia: Local Government Guidelines for Subdivisional Development
- Local Government WSUD Asset Maintenance in Western Australia: Costing WSUD and conventional drainage maintenance in Perth
- Peel-Harvey WSUD technical guidelines
- Acidic water discharge criteria discussion paper
- Guidelines for industrial development
- International Erosion Control Association Australasia: Best practice erosion and sediment control
Our focus areas
Supporting community wellbeing and healthy environments within resilient and sustainable places throughout Western Australia.
Our Partners
Department of Lands and Heratige
UDIA
Department of Water and Environment
WALGA
Department of Biodiversity
Water Corporation