IPART pricing breakdown
You asked and we listened. As part of our commitment to transparency, we have created a series of pricing breakdowns to show you where your money goes.
WAMC breakdown
WAMC
WAMC is a statutory body responsible for water resource management in NSW. This includes developing plans for sharing water between users and the environment, administering water licences and allocations, and ensuring compliance with water laws and licences.
The prices WAMC charges water users aim to recover a share of the costs incurred in providing its water management functions and monopoly services. The fund allocation is distributed between WaterNSW, the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (NSW DCCEEW) and Natural Resources Access Regulator (NRAR) for various functionalities.
Rural bulk water breakdown
Rural bulk water
WaterNSW owns and operates the dams and other assets that collect, store and deliver bulk water in NSW and provide services to bulk water customers.
The prices that IPART set aim to recover a share of the efficient costs of providing rural bulk water services and support sustainable ongoing service delivery. The remaining share of these costs is funded by the NSW Government on behalf of the broader community.
Bulk water charges, recover customers’ share of the efficient costs of delivering WaterNSW’s rural bulk water services.
Valley by valley breakdowns
Border Rivers
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- Unregulated river and groundwater customers are only billed WAMC charges.
- Regulated river customers are billed 40% WAMC charges and 60% rural bulk water charges.
Coastal
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Far West
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Fish River
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Greater Sydney
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Other – This cost category includes expenditure on Treasury Management Fund (TMF) contributions for insurance, land tax provisions and miscellaneous corporate activities such as stakeholder engagement.
Gwydir
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| WAMC | Rural bulk water |
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- Unregulated river and groundwater customers are only billed WAMC charges.
- Regulated river customers are billed 40% WAMC charges and 60% rural bulk water charges.
Hunter
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| WAMC | Rural bulk water |
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- Unregulated river and groundwater customers are only billed WAMC charges.
- Regulated river customers are billed 40% WAMC charges and 60% rural bulk water charges.
Inland (including Murrumbidgee)
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Lachlan
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| WAMC | Rural bulk water |
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- Unregulated river and groundwater customers are only billed WAMC charges.
- Regulated river customers are billed 40% WAMC charges and 60% rural bulk water charges.
Lowbidgee
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Macquarie
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| WAMC | Rural bulk water |
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- Unregulated river and groundwater customers are only billed WAMC charges.
- Regulated river customers are billed 40% WAMC charges and 60% rural bulk water charges.
Murray
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| WAMC | Rural bulk water |
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- Unregulated river and groundwater customers are only billed WAMC charges.
- Regulated river customers are billed 40% WAMC charges and 60% rural bulk water charges.
Murrumbidgee
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| WAMC | Rural bulk water |
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- Unregulated river and groundwater customers are only billed WAMC charges.
- Regulated river customers are billed 40% WAMC charges and 60% rural bulk water charges.
Namoi
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| WAMC | Rural bulk water |
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- Unregulated river and groundwater customers are only billed WAMC charges.
- Regulated river customers are billed 40% WAMC charges and 60% rural bulk water charges.
North Coast
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| WAMC | Rural bulk water |
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- Unregulated river and groundwater customers are only billed WAMC charges.
- Regulated river customers are billed 40% WAMC charges and 60% rural bulk water charges.
Peel
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| WAMC | Rural bulk water |
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- Unregulated river and groundwater customers are only billed WAMC charges.
- Regulated river customers are billed 40% WAMC charges and 60% rural bulk water charges.
South Coast
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| WAMC | Rural bulk water |
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- Unregulated river and groundwater customers are only billed WAMC charges.
- Regulated river customers are billed 40% WAMC charges and 60% rural bulk water charges.
*Percentages are indicative only and may vary.
Assets - funding costs refer to financing costs associated with running our assets including groundwater bores and surface water hydrometric stations and instrumentation, corporate assets, IT, vehicles and offices. Financing costs are those that are expected to be incurred as a result of efficient equity and debt financing strategies.
Conditions management refers to applying licence and approval conditions in accordance with water sharing plans.
Customer services includes customer support, billing and water account management.
Water management refers to the planning and implementation of managing water within NSW.
Water modelling refers to the development, upgrade and application of surface water resource management models for use in water planning and to assess performance in terms of statutory requirements, interstate agreements, regional water supply optimisation and third-party impacts on NSW stakeholders, and the development, upgrade and use of groundwater resource management models for water sharing and management applications, and for resource impact and balance assessments.
Water quality monitoring refers to monitoring the quality of water in the state’s rivers and storages, along with groundwater sources, collecting and recording hydrometric data including rainfall, groundwater characteristics, flow characteristics of surface water and reporting Fish River water quality management plan in order to effectively manage water and improve water quality.
*Percentages are indicative only and may vary.
Asset management refers to the maintenance and management planning of our dams, weirs, reservoirs, pipelines, tunnels and canals.
Customer services includes customer support, billing and water account management.
Legacy costs refers to the Unders and Overs Mechanism (UOM) cost which is the cost of recovering a legacy balance owed to WaterNSW under the 2014 Determination made by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).
Water delivery and operations refer to the water release from dams to customers, normal environment and system flows, demand forecasting and resource assessment, works approval and other compliance reporting. It includes use of computer-based systems known as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) which permit remote operation of regulatory devices along the extent of a stream and manual work required to release water from dams, weir and regulators.
Water infrastructure assets - funding costs refer to the financing costs associated with running our assets including dams, weirs, reservoirs, pipelines, tunnels, canals, IT, corporate assets and hydrometric stations. Financing costs are those that are expected to be incurred as a result of efficient equity and debt financing strategies.
Water quality monitoring refers to monitoring the quality of water in the state’s rivers and storages, along with groundwater sources, collecting and recording hydrometric data including rainfall, groundwater characteristics, flow characteristics of surface water and reporting Fish River water quality management plan in order to effectively manage water and improve water quality.
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