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Water sharing plans

Public exhibition and public comment sought

View a list of water sharing plan amendments where public comment is being sought.

Urunga NSW where the Bellinger and Kalang rivers meet and empty into the pacific ocean.

Plans on exhibition – none currently

Recent public exhibitions – closed

Severn River: Image credit -Tanya Weir

Public exhibition of the draft replacement Water Sharing Plan for the NSW Border Rivers Unregulated River Water Sources 2024 has now closed.

Barmah NSW Murray River at Broken Creek Junction.

Public exhibition of the replacement Water Sharing Plan for the Murray Unregulated River Water Sources 2024 has now closed.

The Great Anabranch of the Darling.

Public exhibition of the replacement Water Sharing Plan for the Lower Murray-Darling Unregulated River Water Source 2024 has now closed.

The Castlereagh River flowing through Gulargambone.

Outcomes of the public exhibition for the draft replacement water sharing plan for the Castlereagh Unregulated River Water Sources 2024.

Culgoa River - Image credit: Melissa Hams

Public exhibition of the replacement Water Sharing Plan for the Intersecting Streams Unregulated River Water Sources 2024 has now closed.

Bore pump in a paddock with dusty soil

Public exhibition of proposed amendments to the water sharing plan has now closed.

Sturt National Park, Tibooburra

Public exhibition of the replacement Water Sharing Plan has now closed. The team is reviewing submissions and developing a What We Heard

Tweed River and Mount Warning near Tumbulgum NSW Australia. Shot at sunrise from the east bank of Tweed River.

Outcomes of the public exhibition for the draft replacement water sharing plan for the Tweed River Area Unregulated and Alluvial Water

Richmond River. Lismore, NSW.

Outcomes of the public exhibition for the draft replacement water sharing plan for the Richmond River Area Unregulated, Regulated and

Farmland in Bega, NSW.

Outcomes of the public exhibition for the draft replacement water sharing plan for the Bega River Area Regulated, Unregulated and Alluvial

A water pool in River Cave at the Jenolan Caves at the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia.

Outcomes of the public exhibition for the draft replacement water sharing plan for the Greater Metropolitan Region Groundwater Sources 2023.

Kangaroo River toward Carrington Falls in New South Wales.

Outcomes of the public exhibition for the draft replacement water sharing plan for the Greater Metropolitan Region Unregulated River Water

Merimbula Lake, NSW.

Outcomes of the public exhibition for the draft replacement water sharing plan of the Towamba River Unregulated and Alluvial Water Sources.