Senator The Hon Murray Watt, Minister for the Environment and Water
The Hon Andrew Powell MLA, Minister for the Environment and Tourism and Minister for Science and Innovation
The Australian and Queensland Governments are launching the $24 million Great Barrier Reef Urban Technology and Innovation Fund, a transformative initiative set to drive cutting-edge solutions for improving water quality in the Great Barrier Reef.
The Reef Urban Technology and Innovation Fund will tackle urban water pollution from stormwater, wastewater, and industrial runoff. Urban areas cover less than one per cent of the Great Barrier Reef catchment, but their impact is still locally significant.
The Fund will build on previous investments and existing initiatives, as well as support the development of new management approaches and technologies, or technologies applied at scale elsewhere but not tested within the Reef catchment.
The joint Queensland-Commonwealth Fund will be comprised of $12 million Commonwealth funding and $12 million Queensland Government funding, with co-investment from project proponents, and will be overseen by the Queensland Government's Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation.
