Planning for 2023-24
Every year, the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder publishes a Water Management Plan. It outlines how we plan to use water for the environment across the Basin's rivers and wetlands under a range of different weather and water availability conditions at both the valley and Basin-scale.
Our plan looks at:
- how much water is expected to be available
- the seasonal rainfall outlook
- plant, animal, river and wetland health.
Every year is different.
Read the Basin-scale plan for 2023-24 and all the valley chapters in the Water Management Plan. Or for a brief overview visit summary of Water Management Plan.
Water holdings
The Commonwealth holds the following entitlement types in the Mid-Murray region:
- NSW Murray High Security
- NSW Murray General Security
- NSW Murray Conveyance
- NSW Murray Supplementary
- NSW Murray Groundwater
- NSW Murray Unregulated
- Victorian Murray High Reliability
- Victorian Murray Low Reliability
For more information about current Commonwealth environmental water holdings in the Mid-Murray Region, please refer to Water Holdings by Catchment.
For more information regarding the characteristics of entitlements and the water resource plan held in the Murray catchment please refer to Victoria's Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, South Australia's Department for Environment and Water and New South Wales Department of Planning and Environment.