Murray–Darling Basin
38.1 Trade of groundwater entitlement within region
Supporting information
Groundwater entitlement trade is permitted within the Murray–Darling Basin region; the volume for the year 2012–13 is 82,265 ML. The following table provides details of the trades. All the trades provided in the following table were within respective water resource plan areas.
| Groundwater resource plan area | State |
Volume (ML) for the 2012–13 year |
| GW15 Gwydir Alluvium | NSW | 324 |
| GW14 Namoi Alluvium | NSW | 10,811 |
| GW13 New South Wales Great Artesian Basin Shallow | NSW | 2,552 |
| GW12 Macquarie–Castlereagh Alluvium | NSW | 1,670 |
| Sub–total Northern Basin | 15,357 |
|
| GW 11 Lachlan and South Western Fractured Rock | NSW | 2,242 |
| GW10 Lachlan Alluvium | NSW | 7,142 |
| GW9 Murrumbidgee Alluvium | NSW | 23,206 |
| GW8 Murray Alluvium | NSW | 10,383 |
| GW6 Western Porous Rock | NSW | 1,874 |
| GW2 Goulburn-Murray and GW3 Wimmera-Mallee (groundwater) | Vic. | 22,056 |
| GW1 Australian Capital Territory (groundwater) | ACT | 5 |
| Sub–total Southern Basin | 66,908 |
|
| Total for the region | 82,265 |
|
Quantification approach
Data source
National Water Commission's water trading data for the 2012–13 year.
Provided by
Bureau of Meteorology.
Method
Groundwater entitlement trade volume for each water resource plan area was extracted from National Water Commission's water trading database for the 2012–13 year.
Assumptions, limitations, caveats and approximations
Nil.
Uncertainty information
The uncertainty estimate was not quantified.