An irrigator in NSW's north-west will forfeit more than a third of their FY21-22 groundwater allocation and contribute $15,000 towards fish stocking in the Namoi River.
Water users can be even more confident in the ability of the state’s water regulator to enforce the law effectively now it has added more technology to its toolkit. Accurately assessing how much water farmers have taken or stored is critical to the work of the Natural Resources Access Regulator (NRAR).
NSW continues to add to its tally of water law compliance with 1233 enforcement actions taken since the Natural Resources Access Regulator (NRAR) began public reporting of data in 2019.
A huge dam on an Oran Park property has been removed and hundreds of megalitres of water returned to the catchment of South Creek in south-western Sydney. Removal of the dam was a key part of a binding legal agreement between a dairy farm operator and the Natural Resources Access Regulator (NRAR) earlier this year.
A new report has estimated the market value of the state's water access licences at $29 billion and rising. The report commissioned by the Natural Resources Access Regulator (NRAR) found that the value of water entitlements has been increasing and if this continues would exceed $30 billion in the not-too-distant future.