Victorian Water Asset Database: Natural Water Features for Victoria, Australia

The Victorian Water Asset Database (VWAD) is a geospatial dataset identifying natural and semi-natural water assets for the state of Victoria, Australia. It includes features such as lakes, rivers, creeks, wetlands, water storages, estuaries, groundwater aquifers, springs, and large marine intertidal zones. The dataset is provided by the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action and was last updated on 2026-04-09.

Use Cases

• Mapping natural water body distribution based on the listed asset types like lakes, rivers, and wetlands.
• Conducting regional water resource assessments based on the inventory of groundwater aquifers and springs.
• Supporting environmental impact studies by providing a spatial baseline of estuaries and marine intertidal zones.
• Informing conservation planning for water-dependent ecosystems using the identified wetland and creek features.

Strengths

• Covers a wide range of natural water asset types as listed in the description, including lakes, rivers, and groundwater aquifers.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for broad reuse.
• Available in multiple geospatial file formats (TAB, MIF, GDB, SHP, DWG, DXF) for compatibility with various GIS tools.

Limitations

• Specific irrigation and water supply infrastructure such as channels and bores are explicitly excluded, limiting utility for certain infrastructure analyses.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and spatial resolution are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific tasks.

Provenance

Source

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 01:41:05.266137; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Victoria, Australia