Environmental water holdings

The following table provides details of the Commonwealth environmental water holdings.

Notes:

1. Formal transfer of ownership to the Commonwealth takes place on registration of the entitlement by the relevant State water authority. The entitlement becomes part of the Commonwealth environmental water holdings at that time.
2. Registration can occur a number of months after the exchange of contract, so the amount in the holdings differs from the volume of entitlements secured under contract through the Restoring the Balance in the Murray-Darling Basin program and the Sustainable Rural Water Use and Infrastructure program.
3. Allocations of water against entitlements held in regulated systems are made periodically and will depend on factors including seasonal inflows and rules associated with water held in storages.
4. Unsupplemented and unregulated entitlement figures represent the annual volumetric limit of water that may be available when licence conditions are met. Where the licence conditions specify the annual volumetric limit as a maximum volume of water that may be accessed in a multi-year period, the entitlement volume reported reflects the average annual volumetric limit available.
5. All average annual yield figures in this table are calculated using the Department of the Environment estimates of the long term average annual yield for each entitlement. It was advised in the Murray-Darling Basin Ministers' Communiqué of 4 November 2011 that these would be used to determine how much of the 'gap' between the Baseline Diversion Limit (BDL) and the Sustainable Diversion Limits (SDL) has been 'bridged' through purchase and infrastructure projects.
6. Southern Connected Basin entitlements include Murrumbidgee, Murray, Lower Darling, Goulburn-Broken, Campaspe (excluding Coliban) and Loddon titles.

Subject to water accounting adjustments. Slight discrepancies may exist due to rounding. Allocations of water against entitlements held in regulated systems are made periodically and will depend on factors including seasonal inflows and rules associated with water accounts.

For unsupplemented entitlements, no ‘carryover’ or ‘water account balance’ is reported. 'New allocations’ and ‘available water transferred for delivery or delivered directly’ are accounted at the time of take.

For unsupplemented entitlements, no ‘carryover’ or ‘water account balance’ is reported. 'New allocations’ and ‘available water transferred for delivery or delivered directly’ are accounted at the time of take.

1. New allocations in the Border Rivers in continuous water accounting areas include inflows, evaporative loss and seepage from storage. This may be negative if losses are greater than inflows.

For unsupplemented entitlements, no ‘carryover’ or ‘water account balance’ is reported. 'New allocations’ and ‘available water transferred for delivery or delivered directly’ are accounted at the time of take.

1. Long Term Average Annual Yield revised based on information provided by the Murray-Darling Basin Authority.

For supplementary entitlements, no ‘carryover’ or ‘water account balance’ is reported. 'New allocations’ and ‘available water transferred for delivery or delivered directly’ are accounted at the time of take.

1. Includes the Cudgegong regulated river system.
2. For supplementary entitlements, no ‘carryover’ or ‘water account balance’ is reported. 'New allocations’ and ‘available water transferred for delivery or delivered directly’ are accounted at the time of take.

For unsupplemented entitlements, no ‘carryover’ or ‘water account balance’ is reported. 'New allocations’ and ‘available water transferred for delivery or delivered directly’ are accounted at the time of take.

1 Includes the Peel, upper and lower Namoi catchments.

For unregulated and unsupplemented entitlements, no ‘carryover’ or ‘water account balance’ is reported. 'New allocations’ and ‘available water transferred for delivery or delivered directly’ are accounted at the time of take.

1. Water allocations in southern-connected Basin catchments can, with some restrictions, be traded to other catchments in the southern-connected Basin. This gives the Commonwealth the capacity to move water between catchments of the southern-connected Basin to get the best outcomes for the environment.
2. Southern connected basin includes the following hydrologically connected catchments: Goulburn, Campaspe, Loddon, Murray (SA, Victoria, and NSW), Lower Darling, and Murrumbidgee.
3. For supplementary entitlements, no ‘carryover’ or ‘water account balance’ is reported. 'New allocations’ and ‘available water transferred for delivery or delivered directly’ are accounted at the time of take.

1. Includes 30 ML of entitlement in the Coliban Water system. This entitlement was obtained as part of the Murray-Darling Basin Small Block Irrigators Exit Grant Package. It is not possible to trade this entitlement out of the Coliban system for use in the wider Campaspe system or for use in the connecting Murray River.

1. Includes 4,234 ML of High security entitlement in the Lower Darling
2. Includes 21,564 ML of General security entitlement in the Lower Darling
3. For supplementary entitlements, no ‘carryover’ or ‘water account balance’ is reported. 'New allocations’ and ‘available water transferred for delivery or delivered directly’ are accounted at the time of take.

For supplementary entitlements, no ‘carryover’ or ‘water account balance’ is reported. 'New allocations’ and ‘available water transferred for delivery or delivered directly’ are accounted at the time of take.

1. This water is held through a Supply by Agreement between the Commonwealth of Australia and the Grampians Wimmera Mallee Water Corporation.