Current Water Ownership

Last updated: 15 March 2024

Please note that the information published in these tables will vary from the information published on the Victorian Water Register website as it includes:

  • Preliminary environmental water holder use, return flow and trade volumes
  • Volumes of operational use by Goulburn-Murray Water private water share holders
  • This shows all water available to use or trade in allocation accounts recorded in the Victorian Water Register. It does not include other water in the system like minimum flows.

Goulburn System Current Water Ownership

Table of Goulburn system water ownership by Owner Type. There are three ownership types - Private, Environmental or Water Corporation ownership. The water ownership for the In or Credit and Out or Debit sub-categories and the total currently available are recorded for each ownership type. As is the spillable water account balance and volume spilt from spillable water accounts. 
  Private Environment Water Corporations
In / Credit
Carryover 733 GL 300 GL 61 GL
New allocations 1,080 GL 617 GL 105 GL
Trade in 518 GL 234 GL 26 GL
Returned from spillable water accounts 0 GL 0 GL 0 GL
Return flows 0 GL 0 GL 0 GL
Out / Debit
Transferred into spillable water accounts 650 GL 123 GL 44 GL
Spill from special carryover accounts** 0 GL 78 GL 0 GL
Trade out 645 GL 238 GL 53 GL
Used* 467 GL 325 GL 13 GL
 
Total currently available in allocation accounts 569 GL 464 GL 82 GL
Spillable Water Accounts
Volume remaining in spillable water accounts 288 GL 54 GL 4 GL
Volume spilled from spillable water accounts 362 GL 70 GL 39 GL

*The volume of water used excludes water that has been used in other systems by tagged use.

Some water is also reserved in the Goulburn system to cover the 30 GL water quality reserve, for savings to be allocated from modernisation, and for supplies to lower Broken Creek irrigators.

 *Volume of spill from environmental entitlements with special carryover rules. 


Murray System Current Water Ownership

  Private Environment Water Corporations
Table of Murray system water ownership by Owner Type. There are three ownership types - Private, Environmental or Water Corporation ownership. The water ownership for the In or Credit and Out or Debit sub-categories and the total currently available are recorded for each ownership type. As is the spillable water account balance and volume spilt from spillable water accounts. 
In / Credit
Carryover 502 GL 447 GL 36 GL
New allocations 1,194 GL 630 GL 127 GL
Trade in 992 GL 257 GL 3 GL
Returned from spillable water accounts 63 GL 48 GL 4 GL
Return flows* 0 GL 293 GL* 1 GL
Out / Debit
Transferred into spillable water accounts 271 GL 251 GL 18 GL
Spill from special carryover accounts** 0 GL

105 GL

0 GL
Trade out* 871 GL 898 GL 50 GL
Used^

533 GL

162 GL 12 GL
 
Total currently available in allocation accounts 1,078 GL 261 GL 92 GL
Spillable Water Accounts
Volume remaining in spillable water accounts 0 GL 0 GL 0 GL
Volume spilled from spillable water accounts 207 GL 204 GL 14 GL

*Return flows and trade is used as a mechanism to account for environmental water deliveries from the Murray, Goulburn and other tributaries to South Australia. Due to long travel times to South Australia there can be delays in the traded volumes corresponding to return flows and used volumes. Because of these delays the environmental trade and recredit volumes are displayed here are estimated figures. 

^The volume of water used includes water that has been used that has been sourced from other systems by tagged use.

**Volume of spill from environmental entitlements with special carryover rules. 


Campaspe System Current Water Ownership

Table of Campaspe system water ownership by owner type. There are three ownership types - Private, Environmental or Water Corporation ownership. The water ownership for the In or Credit and Out or Debit sub-categories and the total currently available are recorded for each ownership type. As is the spillable water account balance and volume spilt from spillable water accounts.
  Private Environment Water Corporations
In / Credit
Carryover 14.1 GL 13.6 GL 3.8 GL
New allocations 20.9 GL 37.2 GL 15.1 GL
Trade in 3.2 GL 6.0 GL 0 GL
Returned from spillable water accounts 0 GL 0 GL 0 GL
Out / Debit
Transferred into spillable water accounts 14.1 GL 8.4 GL 3.8 GL
Spill from special carryover accounts* 0 GL 1.7 GL 0 GL
Trade out 3.9 GL 6.0 GL 8.3 GL
Used 5.5 GL 19.8 GL 0 GL
 
Total currently available in allocation accounts 14.7 GL 20.9 GL 6.8 GL
Spillable Water Accounts
Volume remaining in spillable water accounts 2.6 GL 1.5 GL 0.9 GL
Volume spilled from spillable water accounts 11.4 GL 6.9 GL 2.8 GL

 *Volume of spill from environmental entitlements with special carryover rules. 


Loddon System Current Water Ownership

Table of Loddon system water ownership by owner type. There are three ownership types - Private, Environmental or Water Corporation ownership. The water ownership for the In or Credit and Out or Debit sub-categories and the total currently available are recorded for each ownership type.
  Private Environment Water Corporations
In / Credit
Carryover 8.0 GL 4.0 GL 0.9 GL
New allocations 16.9 GL 9.3 GL 2.0 GL
Trade in 1.0 GL 5.3 GL 0 GL
Out / Debit
Spill from special carryover accounts* 0 GL 4.0 GL 0 GL
Trade out 4.8 GL 3.6 GL 0.3 GL
Used 3.9 GL 6.5 GL 0.1 GL
 
Total currently available in allocation accounts 17.2 GL 4.4 GL 2.6 GL

  *Volume of spill from environmental entitlements with special carryover rules. 


Broken System Current Water Ownership

Table of Broken system water ownership by owner type. There are three ownership types - Private, Environmental or Water Corporation ownership. The water ownership for the In or Credit and Out or Debit sub-categories and the total currently available are recorded for each ownership type.
  Private Environment Water Corporations
In / Credit
Carryover 6.6 GL 0.2 GL 0.2 GL
New allocations 13.4 GL 0.5 GL 0.2 GL
Trade in 0.5 GL 2.4 GL 0 GL
Out / Debit
Trade out 3.9 GL 0.5 GL 0 GL
Used 2.7 GL 1.1 GL 0 GL
 
Total currently available in allocation accounts 15.5 GL 0.6 GL 0.4 GL

 


Bullarook System Current Water Ownership

Table of Bullarook system water ownership by owner type. There are three ownership types - Private, Environmental or Water Corporation ownership. The water ownership for the In or Credit and Out or Debit sub-categories and the total currently available are recorded for each ownership type.
  Private Environment Water Corporations
In / Credit
Carryover 0.4 GL 0.1 GL 0.2 GL
New allocations 0.8 GL 0.1 GL 0.3 GL
Trade in 0 GL 0 GL 0 GL
Out / Debit
Spill from special carryover accounts* 0 GL 0.1 GL 0 GL
Trade out 0 GL 0 GL 0 GL
Used 0.4 GL 0 GL 0 GL
 
Total currently available in allocation accounts 0.9 GL 0.1 GL 0.5 GL

 *Volume of spill from environmental entitlements with special carryover rules. 


Ovens System Current Water Ownership

Table of Ovens system water ownership by owner type. There are three ownership types - Private, Environmental or Water Corporation ownership. The water ownership for the In or Credit and Out or Debit sub-categories and the total currently available are recorded for each ownership type.
  Private Environment Water Corporations
In / Credit
New allocations 25.9 GL 0.1 GL 7.9 GL
Trade in 0.7 GL 0 GL 0 GL
Out / Debit
Trade out 0.7 GL 0 GL 0 GL
Used 1.8 GL 0 GL 0 GL
 
Total currently available in allocation accounts 24.1 GL 0.1 GL 7.9 GL