Reef 2050 Water Quality Improvement Plan
Consultation has now closed on the draft Reef 2050 Catchment Water Quality Strategy.
Thank you to everyone who provided feedback on the draft strategy. Your feedback will help to inform and shape the final strategy and how we all work together to improve our local waterways and the water flowing to the Reef.
The Great Barrier Reef is renowned for its ecological importance and beauty.
However, it is under increasing threat from a range of pressures including climate change, poor water quality from Reef catchments, extreme weather events and recent extensive coral bleaching.
This website is home to the Reef 2050 Water Quality Improvement Plan 2017–2022, a joint commitment of the Australian and Queensland governments that seeks to improve the quality of water flowing from Reef catchments to the Great Barrier Reef.
This plan identifies how the water quality outcome under the broader Reef 2050 Long-Term Sustainability Plan will be delivered.
The long-term (2050) outcome is that ‘Good water quality sustains the outstanding universal value of the Great Barrier Reef, builds resilience, improves ecosystem health and benefits communities’.
The Reef 2050 Water Quality Improvement Plan:
- uses independent and peer-reviewed science
- supported by a robust monitoring and evaluation program—the Paddock to Reef Integrated Monitoring, Modelling and Reporting program.
