Basic landholder rights
Basic landholder rights
Under the Water Management Act 2000, there are three types of basic landholder rights in NSW:
- Domestic and stock rights
Owners or occupiers of land overlaying an aquifer or has river, estuary or lake frontage can take water without a licence for domestic (household) purposes or to stock water. - Harvestable rights – dams
Harvestable right water allows landholders in most rural areas to collect a proportion of the run-off on their property and store it in one or more farm dams up to a certain size. - Native title
Anyone who holds native title with respect to water, as determined under the Commonwealth Native Title Act 1993, can take and use water for a range of personal, domestic and non-commercial purposes.