Failing to ensure old water meters were working properly on three bores has resulted in fines totalling just under $25,000 for a Wee Waa farming enterprise.
Since 2022, outreach officers have visited thousands of properties in the two regions which revealed concerning numbers of incidents where landholders had breached the rules in some way.
Hard clay pan landscapes in the Narrabri region will be restored thanks to an enforcement action by the Natural Resources Access Regulator (NRAR).
Natural Resources Access Regulator board member Phil Duncan has been named the Australian Water Professional of the year at the Oz Water 2024 gala night in Melbourne.
The NSW water regulator visited thousands of water licence holders in 2023 and found a quarter of all water users on the NSW coast don't know how to comply with the conditions of their water licences and approvals.