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Water sources containing surrendered water access licences

Created 09/03/2026

Updated 09/03/2026

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A number of water access licences in a mix of regulated river, unregulated river and groundwater sources have been returned to the Minister for Water under section 77 of the Water Management Act 2000. As at March 2025, the Minister holds around 600 surrendered licences comprising approximately 26,000 shares of water in 236 water sources.

The web service was developed to represent the NSW statutory water sources which contain water access licences surrendered to the Minister for Water. The data was extracted from the Water Licencing System, maintained by WaterNSW, in March 2025.

The dataset includes the number of surrendered shares available within the respective water source, including licence categories (if applicable).

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Title Water sources containing surrendered water access licences
Language English
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/afdcf1e9-eccb-4a71-aab4-ccd9c9228cfe
Remote Last Updated 06/03/2026
Contact Point
Spatial Services (DCS)
?datansw@customerservice.nsw.gov.au
Reference Period 06/03/2026
Geospatial Coverage New South Wales
Data Portal DataNSW

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "Water sources containing surrendered water access licences". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-1-1cf8220fc1f64f1fa5a3c924c058083e