Victorian Water Accounts Surface Water Summaries - 2022-23 Surface Water Statewide Summaries

From the dataset abstract

DEECA uses data from the Victorian Water Register and other sources to produce the Victorian Water Accounts. The Accounts provide a year-by-year overview of water availability and use...

Source: Victorian Water Accounts Surface Water Summaries

Additional Information

Field	Value
Data last updated	30 October 2025
Metadata last updated	30 October 2025
Created	30 October 2025
Format	CSV
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Attribution	© State of Victoria (Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action)
Data quality	Information, data and advice on this website is provided on the basis that site users undertake responsibility for assessing the relevance and accuracy of its content. The Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action and as owner of this site on behalf of the Victorian Government, makes no representations, either expressed or implied, as to the suitability of anything on this website for any particular purpose. We do not sponsor or endorse any material on websites linked from or to this website, including any social media websites that may be linked in any way to this website. We do not accept any liability to any person: * for the information, data or advice (or the use of such information, data or advice) which is provided on this website or incorporated into it by reference * for any interference with or damage to a user's computer, software or data occurring in connection with or relating to this website or its use Notes: <div> 1. The volume of available surface water resources is assumed to be the volume of catchment inflow for all Victorian basins, as determined in the surface water balance for each basin presented in Water availability. The 2021-22 available water volume has been updated from the previous report. 2. This includes an estimation for small catchment dams, which shows the estimated volume of use for the water year rather than an entitlement volume. This approach is taken because not all small catchment dams are required to be licensed or registered under the Water Act 1989. The volume added for small catchment dams is the estimate of total water taken by the dams for the year. 3. The total entitlement volume is the maximum amount that can be taken in any one year. The actual amount available to be taken in a particular year will differ within the entitlements summed, due to rules for allocating water which vary between entitlements, and to the seasonal conditions in that year. Some entitlements, often held by environmental water holders and some by water corporations, do not have a specified annual volume. Those entitlements still provide for a share of the resource, however there is no volume reported here for them. 4. The total use reported includes consumptive and environmental use and is net of returns from irrigation, environment, power generation and major industry.https://preview.accounts.water.vic.gov.au/2023/water/environment/
Datastore active	False
Datastore contains all records of source file	False
Has views	False
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Package id	f7490431-83d0-445c-a9e5-d90fdbd04002
Period end	2023-06-30
Period start	2022-07-01
Position	1
Release date	2025-10-30
State	active
File Size	220.0 bytes
Release Date	30 October 2025
Temporal Coverage Start	1 July 2022
Temporal Coverage End	30 June 2023
Data Quality Statement	Information, data and advice on this website is provided on the basis that site users undertake responsibility for assessing the relevance and accuracy of its content. The Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action and as owner of this site on behalf of the Victorian Government, makes no representations, either expressed or implied, as to the suitability of anything on this website for any particular purpose. We do not sponsor or endorse any material on websites linked from or to this website, including any social media websites that may be linked in any way to this website. We do not accept any liability to any person: for the information, data or advice (or the use of such information, data or advice) which is provided on this website or incorporated into it by reference for any interference with or damage to a user's computer, software or data occurring in connection with or relating to this website or its use Notes: The volume of available surface water resources is assumed to be the volume of catchment inflow for all Victorian basins, as determined in the surface water balance for each basin presented in Water availability. The 2021-22 available water volume has been updated from the previous report. This includes an estimation for small catchment dams, which shows the estimated volume of use for the water year rather than an entitlement volume. This approach is taken because not all small catchment dams are required to be licensed or registered under the Water Act 1989. The volume added for small catchment dams is the estimate of total water taken by the dams for the year. The total entitlement volume is the maximum amount that can be taken in any one year. The actual amount available to be taken in a particular year will differ within the entitlements summed, due to rules for allocating water which vary between entitlements, and to the seasonal conditions in that year. Some entitlements, often held by environmental water holders and some by water corporations, do not have a specified annual volume. Those entitlements still provide for a share of the resource, however there is no volume reported here for them. The total use reported includes consumptive and environmental use and is net of returns from irrigation, environment, power generation and major industry.https://preview.accounts.water.vic.gov.au/2023/water/environment/
Attribution Statement	© State of Victoria (Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action)

Field

Value

Data last updated

30 October 2025

Metadata last updated

30 October 2025

Created

30 October 2025

Format

CSV

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Attribution

Data quality

Information, data and advice on this website is provided on the basis that site users undertake responsibility for assessing the relevance and accuracy of its content. The Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action and as owner of this site on behalf of the Victorian Government, makes no representations, either expressed or implied, as to the suitability of anything on this website for any particular purpose. We do not sponsor or endorse any material on websites linked from or to this website, including any social media websites that may be linked in any way to this website. We do not accept any liability to any person: * for the information, data or advice (or the use of such information, data or advice) which is provided on this website or incorporated into it by reference * for any interference with or damage to a user's computer, software or data occurring in connection with or relating to this website or its use Notes: <div> 1. The volume of available surface water resources is assumed to be the volume of catchment inflow for all Victorian basins, as determined in the surface water balance for each basin presented in Water availability. The 2021-22 available water volume has been updated from the previous report. 2. This includes an estimation for small catchment dams, which shows the estimated volume of use for the water year rather than an entitlement volume. This approach is taken because not all small catchment dams are required to be licensed or registered under the Water Act 1989. The volume added for small catchment dams is the estimate of total water taken by the dams for the year. 3. The total entitlement volume is the maximum amount that can be taken in any one year. The actual amount available to be taken in a particular year will differ within the entitlements summed, due to rules for allocating water which vary between entitlements, and to the seasonal conditions in that year. Some entitlements, often held by environmental water holders and some by water corporations, do not have a specified annual volume. Those entitlements still provide for a share of the resource, however there is no volume reported here for them. 4. The total use reported includes consumptive and environmental use and is net of returns from irrigation, environment, power generation and major industry.https://preview.accounts.water.vic.gov.au/2023/water/environment/

Datastore active

False

Datastore contains all records of source file

False

Has views

False

dbe13758-5ebb-4ab6-aa09-e35fb2dc68d1

Package id

f7490431-83d0-445c-a9e5-d90fdbd04002

Period end

2023-06-30

Period start

2022-07-01

Position

Release date

2025-10-30

State

active

File Size

220.0 bytes

Release Date

30 October 2025

Temporal Coverage Start

1 July 2022

Temporal Coverage End

30 June 2023

Data Quality Statement

We do not sponsor or endorse any material on websites linked from or to this website, including any social media websites that may be linked in any way to this website.

We do not accept any liability to any person:

for the information, data or advice (or the use of such information, data or advice) which is provided on this website or incorporated into it by reference
for any interference with or damage to a user's computer, software or data occurring in connection with or relating to this website or its use

Notes:

The volume of available surface water resources is assumed to be the volume of catchment inflow for all Victorian basins, as determined in the surface water balance for each basin presented in Water availability. The 2021-22 available water volume has been updated from the previous report.
This includes an estimation for small catchment dams, which shows the estimated volume of use for the water year rather than an entitlement volume. This approach is taken because not all small catchment dams are required to be licensed or registered under the Water Act 1989. The volume added for small catchment dams is the estimate of total water taken by the dams for the year.
The total entitlement volume is the maximum amount that can be taken in any one year. The actual amount available to be taken in a particular year will differ within the entitlements summed, due to rules for allocating water which vary between entitlements, and to the seasonal conditions in that year. Some entitlements, often held by environmental water holders and some by water corporations, do not have a specified annual volume. Those entitlements still provide for a share of the resource, however there is no volume reported here for them.
The total use reported includes consumptive and environmental use and is net of returns from irrigation, environment, power generation and major industry.https://preview.accounts.water.vic.gov.au/2023/water/environment/

Attribution Statement