Waterwatch Database

About The Database

All ACT Waterwatch data is publicly available through the Atlas of Living Australia. You can view data across all catchments at once, or filter down to a single catchment area. Water Quality volunteers can log into the database to submit their data for review by a waterwatch coordinator.

Browse water quality, waterbug, and riparian data collected across the Upper Murrumbidgee catchment.

See where platypus and Rakali have been spotted in our catchment, and submit your own sightings to support citizen science.

Explore an interactive map of Waterwatch sites across the Upper Murrumbidgee — filter by water quality, waterbugs, or riparian condition.

Help monitor frog populations across the ACT by identifying species and submitting sightings — frogs are a key indicator of waterway health.

Catchment Areas Coverage

The database is organised into five catchment regions across the ACT and surrounding areas.

Ginninderra

Gungahlin, Hall, Belconnen

Molonglo

Queanbeyan, Captains Flat, Inner North & South Canberra, Woden, Weston Creek

Southern ACT

Tuggeranong, Tharwa, Namadgi & Cotter Reserves

Cooma

Cooma, Numeralla, Bredbo, Michelago, northern Kosciuszko NP

Yass

Yass, Sutton, Gundaroo, Murrumbateman

Database instructions
Step-by-step guides for working with data in the database.

Downloading Data

1.5 MB PDF

Uploading Data

612 KB PDF