Welcome to Special forever: a Murray-Darling Basin water education project

Every year 15-20,000 students participate in Special forever –a Murray-Darling Basin water education project, learning about the unique environments that make up their local area and the Murray-Darling Basin as a whole. With the support of their school teachers, they communicate their knowledge, understanding and appreciation of their environment through a variety of medium; written, visual or multimodal. Selected works are published in an annual anthology or on the project website.

The students also engage in projects with the community and partner with environmental organisations at the local level. As the future custodians of the Basin, what and how they learn will influence the ways in which they interact with their local environment throughout their lives.

e:lit – the Primary English Teaching Association in partnership with the Murray-Darling Basin Authority has managed the project since 1993. Special forever continues to create much enthusiasm amongst schools, teachers students and the community and provides a wealth of environmental teaching resource material.

Special forever has been acknowledged for its excellence in environmental education. Selected writing and art from Special forever 2005-2008 is featured in the H20=Life exhibition at the National Museum of Australia, running until May 16, 2010.