- Provision of strategic advice to local government and private industry
- Identification of catchment / waterway issues and values and links to relevant policy and legislation
- Catchment and waterbody prioritisation using multi-criteria analysis and decision support tools
- Development of catchment / integrated waterway management plans
- Development of practical restoration and rehabilitation management plans;
- Urban waterbody investigations (lakes and reservoirs) and development of nutrient, aquatic weed and phytoplankton management plans
- Design and implementation of water quality and aquatic ecological monitoring programs
- Project management and knowledge exchange (government-industry-academia)
- Development of lake and river restoration /rehabilitation management plans
- Environmental flows / eco-hydrological investigations
- Limnological investigations and applied research, with emphasis on long-term management of nutrients and cyanobacteria
- Environmental policy analysis and provision of strategic advice to government and private industry
- Identification of current and future monitoring and compliance obligations and development of strategies relating to water quality, ecosystem, health, hazardous substances and climate change
- Institutional strengthening and environmental capacity building
- Policy revision and implementation in relation to other state, national or international policies or legislation.
- Design and implementation of water quality and aquatic ecological monitoring programs
- Assessment of waterway values and ecological objectives
- Water quality and ecological impact assessment
- Environmental risk assessment