Water Management Registers, Licence & Trading Statistics

What can you find on these pages?

A number of public registers have been established by the Department to provide information for water users and the general public that can be widely and simply accessed.

Note: the Water Access Licence Register is administered by the Department of Lands and can be found at www.lpi-online.lpi.nsw.gov.au. This should be searched to obtain the legal information about a water access licence required for most water dealings.

Using the variety of searches available on this site you can access up-to-date information on various consents and activities under the Water Management Act 2000, including:

  • approvals
    • status of applications for approvals, including current advertisements.
    • issued approvals, including conditions.
  • water access licences
    • licence conditions.
    • available water determinations.
    • water allocation assignments (formerly known as temporary trades).
    • assignment of shares (formerly known as permanent trades).
  • water access licence and use statistics
    • summaries by water source of number of licences, available water determinations and water usage.
    • summaries by water source of water allocation assignments.


For  Water Act 1912 licences and authorities, you can:

  • check if your Water Act 1912 licence or authority has been converted to a Water Management Act 2000 water access licence and approval.
  • undertake a limited on-line search of licences and authorities by licence number or Lot DP.


The information provided is Limited to meet the requirements of section 57 of the Privacy and Personal Information Act 1998.