Water data licensing

Find out who owns water data that we publish and how it can be used

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Licensing and attribution

The Bureau publishes information relating to water, supplied by many organisations. Each organisation has its own licensing and attribution requirements.

We display licence details so data users understand how they may use, share, or attribute the information. 

List of organisations

These organisations are registered to provide information about water markets. Their data may be published on the Water markets data webpage. This list includes the:

  • organisation name
  • its unique 'accountable entity' (AE) identifier
  • licence that applies to the organisation's information and the attribution they require, when this is supplied.

A to E

If licence details are not supplied, you must contact the organisation for terms and conditions before using their information.

OrganisationIdentifierLicenceAttribution
Bringan Irrigation TrustAE113CC BY 4.0© Bringan Irrigation Trust
Bungunyah-Koraleigh Irrigation TrustAE104  
Central Irrigation Pty LtdAE123  
Coleambally Irrigation Co-operative LimitedAE124  
Coliban Region Water CorporationAE106  
Commonwealth Environmental Water HolderAE120  
Department for Environment and Water (South Australia)AE121  
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (Commonwealth)AE107  
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (New South Wales)AE126  
Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (Victoria)AE115  
Department of Local Government, Water and Volunteers (Queensland)AE109  
Eagle Creek Pumping Syndicate IncAE108  
Environmental Protection Agency (Access Canberra)AE111  

G to Z

If licence details are not supplied, you must contact the organisation for terms and conditions before using their information.

OrganisationIdentifierLicenceAttribution
Goulburn–Murray Rural Water CorporationAE116  
Grampians Wimmera Mallee WaterAE122  
Gunbar Private Water Supply BoardAE119  
Hay Private Irrigation DistrictAE110  
Jemalong Irrigation LimitedAE102  
Marthaguy Irrigation SchemeAE127  
Murray-Darling Basin AuthorityAE118  
Murray Irrigation LimitedAE128  
Murrumbidgee Irrigation LimitedAE112CC BY 4.0© Murrumbidgee Irrigation Limited
Narromine Irrigation Board of ManagementAE114  
Renmark Irrigation TrustAE117  
Sunwater LimitedAE103  
Victorian Environmental Water HolderAE125  
Western Murray Irrigation LimitedAE105  

Licensing information for data providers

When we publish supplied information relating to water:

  • data owners still own their information
  • we share applicable licensing information with users.

We recommend that data owners use the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC-BY) for data provided under the Water Regulations 2008.

About the CC-BY licence

This licence permits the broadest reuse of information. It meets the objectives of the Water Act 2007, while protecting the data supplier's copyright. It allows the community to:

  • use the information, without having to directly contact the data owner
  • share (copy and distribute), remix or adapt the information, provided they attribute the data owner as the copyright holder. They can't do this in a way that suggests the data owner endorses them or their use of the material.

To use the licence

This licence is free. You just need to advise us in writing:

  • to apply the licence to your information
  • how you would like the information to be attributed. For example: © State of Queensland (Department of Regional Development, Manufacturing and Water).

As the data owner, your organisation retains property rights, such as copyright, for its information. This means only your organisation can apply the licence – we can't do this for you.

Licence to use this content

You can use content on this page in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.

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