The Depratment of the Environment, Water, Heritage, and the Arts was an Australian Government Department established in December 2007 and Dissolved in September 2010. Its superseding agency was the Department of Sustainability, Water, Environment, Population and Communities (former). 

The Department focused on issues such as Environment protection and conservation of biodiveristy, air quality, meteorolgy, land contamination, ionospheric predicition, cultural affairs, natural, built and movable cultural heritage, and water policy and resurces among others.