This Guide aims to help woolgrowers and those that work with them, to improve and protect the health of water courses and riparian land on their farms, as well as to minimise the impacts of wool production on water quality and stream health. The aim is to use improved management to achieve both environmental and productive benefits. It also provides information about how these requirements can be incorporated into farm design and wool production operations. Any part of the farm that is linked to the local stream system by water flow, including those parts linked only during storm events, is covered by this River Guide. This is because what happens on them, and how they are managed, can have a significant influence on the stream's health and its water quality.