Current Water Ownership

Last updated: 15 November 2023

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 923 GL 531 GL 98 GL
Trade in 316 GL 224 GL 9 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 401 GL 85 GL 47 GL
Spill from special carryover accounts** 0 GL 78 GL 0 GL
Trade out 456 GL 224 GL 19 GL
Used* 128 GL 180 GL 1 GL
 
Total currently available in allocation accounts 969 GL 559 GL 107 GL
Spillable Water Accounts
Volume remaining in spillable water accounts 137 GL 28 GL 14 GL
Volume spilled from spillable water accounts 264 GL 57 GL 33 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 950 GL 503 GL 109 GL
Trade in 561 GL 237 GL 3 GL
Returned from spillable water accounts 0 GL 0 GL 0 GL
Return flows* 0 GL 293 GL* 0 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* 411 GL 438 GL 16 GL
Used^

250 GL

 162 GL 0 GL
 
Total currently available in allocation accounts 1,081 GL 525 GL 115 GL
Spillable Water Accounts
Volume remaining in spillable water accounts 63 GL 47 GL 4 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 19.8 GL 35.5 GL 13.1 GL
Trade in 2.3 GL 0 GL 0 GL
Returned from spillable water accounts 0 GL 0 GL 0 GL
Out / Debit
Transferred into spillable water accounts 12.4 GL 8.3 GL 0.6 GL
Spill from special carryover accounts* 0 GL 1.7 GL 0 GL
Trade out 2.6 GL 0 GL 3.2 GL
Used 2.5 GL 15.6 GL 0 GL
 
Total currently available in allocation accounts 18.7 GL 23.5 GL 13.0 GL
Spillable Water Accounts
Volume remaining in spillable water accounts 8.5 GL 5.6 GL 0.4 GL
Volume spilled from spillable water accounts 3.9 GL 2.6 GL 0.2 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 15.5 GL 8.3 GL 2.0 GL
Trade in 0.9 GL 3.5 GL 0 GL
Out / Debit
Spill from special carryover accounts* 0 GL 4.0 GL 0 GL
Trade out 3.3 GL 3.5 GL 0.3 GL
Used 1.8 GL 0.4 GL 0 GL
 
Total currently available in allocation accounts 19.3 GL 7.9 GL 2.7 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 GL 0.6 GL 0 GL
Out / Debit
Trade out 2.1 GL 0 GL 0 GL
Used 0.4 GL 0.2 GL 0 GL
 
Total currently available in allocation accounts 17.4 GL 1.1 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 GL 0 GL 0 GL
 
Total currently available in allocation accounts 1.1 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 GL 0 GL 0 GL
Out / Debit
Trade out 0 GL 0 GL 0 GL
Used 0.4 GL 0 GL 0 GL
 
Total currently available in allocation accounts 25.5 GL 0.1 GL 7.9 GL