Fitzroy Partnership: towards a better water future Improved water quality monitoring Fitzroy Partnership for River Health is proud of the work of our partners, being the change that is needed for Fitzroy’s Basin water future. While Fitzroy Partnership’s scope remains primarily in water assessment and monitoring, we are also driving change as part of an Australian-first water monitoring project, the Regional Receiving Environment Monitoring Program. The program due to be launched during 2021 aims to create a more comprehensive water monitoring program than the one which exists under current operators’ Environmental Authority conditions. This will in turn support better assessment and reporting on the health of the waterways of the Fitzroy Basin. Further research into water quality and ecosystem health Fitzroy Partnership continues to offer the HeART of the Basin Scholarship which is open to research students at CQUniversity studying Honours, Masters by Research or PhD to progress their learnings in a research topic relating to improving waterway health in the Fitzroy Basin. Previous scholarship recipients have developed a toolbox for fish health assessment in aquatic ecosystems association with coal and gas industries in Central Queensland, researched off stream watering points as a method of riparian restoration and measured the levels and impacts of microplastics on the environment [...]