The following member research centres have merged to form the ARI:
- Centre for Riverine Landscapes
- Centre for Aquatic Processes and Pollution
Griffith University Affiliated Schools
- Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
- Griffith School of Environment
- Griffith School of Engineering
Major Partners
- International Water Centre
- Seqwater
- Queensland Smart Water Research Facility
- TRaCK
- Healthy Waterways
- Canadian Rivers Institute
- Global Water System Project
- DIVERSITAS
- Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences (CRAES)
- Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Key Laboratory of Aquatic Botany and Watershed Ecology (KLABWE), Wuhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB), Germany