Eight planned high-flow environmental water releases from Jindabyne Dam into the Snowy River will be rolled out between June and November this year.

Environmental water releases from Tantangara Dam into the upper Murrumbidgee River for the 2024/25 water year have been organised by NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water in close consultation with the Snowy Advisory

Following the successful passage of the Federal Government’s bill to rescue the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, New South Wales is getting straight to work to deliver important water saving projects.

The NSW Government is continuing to work to minimise the expose of our regional communities to water buybacks, with the release of the NSW Alternatives to Buybacks Plan today.

Aboriginal tradespeople including apprentices are being urged to pick up the tools and register to take part in a free practical training course to upskill and boost the number of certified people who can install rural water meters across regional

The NSW Government has reaffirmed its opposition to non-strategic water buybacks being used to meet water recovery targets as part of the Murray Darling Basin Plan.

Water Users along the NSW Coast and in the Southern Inland will be given extra time to install non-urban metering equipment in the wake of unrelenting rainfall and widespread flooding.

The NSW Department of Planning and Environment has suspended a planned environmental water release from Jindabyne Dam that was scheduled to take place on Monday 14 November 2022, due to flood operations being undertaken by Snowy Hydro.

The NSW Government invites community feedback on the draft Water Sharing Plan for the Tweed River Area.

NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment today announced the draft replacement water sharing plan for the Central Coast area has been placed on public exhibition for community feedback.

The department announced an embargo on in-river dams within the Ourimbah Creek and Jilliby Jilliby Creek water sources.

The Natural Resources Access Regulator (NRAR) has asked the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) to install metering equipment at Boera Dam in Toorale National Park to increase transparency in water measurement.