Current Water Ownership

Last updated: 16 March 2026

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
  • Estimates of use based on orders 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 430 GL 288 GL 50 GL
New allocations 592 GL 366 GL 81 GL
Trade in 387 GL 342 GL 9 GL
Returned from spillable water accounts 23 GL 3 GL 6 GL
Return flows 0 GL 0 GL 0 GL
Out / Debit
Transferred into spillable water accounts 23 GL 3 GL 6 GL
Spill from special carryover accounts** 0 GL 0 GL 0 GL
Trade out 498 GL 369 GL 39 GL
Used* 443 GL 336 GL 14 GL
 
Total currently available in allocation accounts 468 GL 290 GL 87 GL
Spillable Water Accounts
Volume remaining in spillable water accounts 0 GL 0 GL 0 GL
Volume spilled from spillable water accounts 0 GL 0 GL 0 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 324 GL 141 GL 35 GL
New allocations 901 GL 484 GL 107 GL
Trade in 952 GL 156 GL 9 GL
Returned from spillable water accounts 74 GL 38 GL 3 GL
Return flows* 0 GL 406 GL* 1 GL
Out / Debit
Transferred into spillable water accounts 74 GL 38 GL 3 GL
Spill from special carryover accounts** 0 GL

0 GL

 0 GL
Trade out* 816 GL 694 GL 43 GL
Used^

740 GL

 162 GL* 25 GL
 
Total currently available in allocation accounts 621 GL 331 GL 84 GL
Spillable Water Accounts
Volume remaining in spillable water accounts 0 GL 0 GL 0 GL
Volume spilled from spillable water accounts 0 GL 0 GL 0 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 9.0 GL 15.3 GL 5.8 GL
New allocations 14.2 GL 27.4 GL 3.0 GL
Trade in 2.6 GL 6.9 GL 3.0 GL
Returned from spillable water accounts 4.3 GL 12.4 GL 0.8 GL
Out / Debit
Transferred into spillable water accounts 4.3 GL 12.4 GL 0.8 GL
Spill from special carryover accounts* 0 GL 0 GL 0 GL
Trade out 6.8 GL 6.9 GL 0 GL
Used 5.4 GL 26.0 GL 0 GL
 
Total currently available in allocation accounts 13.6 GL 16.6 GL 11.9 GL
Spillable Water Accounts
Volume remaining in spillable water accounts 0 GL 0 GL 0 GL
Volume spilled from spillable water accounts 0 GL 0 GL 0 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 3.2 GL 2.0 GL 0.9 GL
New allocations 13.5 GL 5.8 GL 1.6 GL
Trade in 7.8 GL 2.9 GL 0.6 GL
Out / Debit
Spill from special carryover accounts* 0 GL

0 GL

 0 GL
Trade out 8.7 GL 2.4 GL 0.4 GL
Used 3.3 GL 3.2 GL 0.9 GL
 
Total currently available in allocation accounts 12.6 GL 5.2 GL 1.8 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 5.4 GL 0 GL 0.2 GL
New allocations 9.1 GL 0.4 GL 0.2 GL
Trade in 0.8 GL 1.4 GL 0 GL
Out / Debit
Trade out 3.5 GL 0.2 GL 0 GL
Used 2.7 GL 0.5 GL 0 GL
 
Total currently available in allocation accounts 9.2 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 0.25 GL 0 GL 0.07 GL
New allocations 0.33 GL 0 GL 0.22 GL
Trade in 0 GL 0 GL 0 GL
Out / Debit
Spill from special carryover accounts* 0 GL 0 GL 0 GL
Trade out 0 GL 0 GL 0 GL
Used 0.03 GL 0 GL 0 GL
 
Total currently available in allocation accounts 0.55 GL 0 GL 0.28 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 26.3 GL 0.1 GL 7.9 GL
Trade in 1.0 GL 0.1 GL 0.1 GL
Out / Debit
Trade out 1.1 GL 0.1 GL 0 GL
Used 5.0 GL 0.0 GL 2.1 GL
 
Total currently available in allocation accounts

21.2 GL

 0.1 GL 5.9 GL