Sentences with phrase «receives water allocations»

The Commonwealth owns water entitlements, and receives water allocations against them, in the same way that other entitlement holders do.

Mr Howard warned that the drought in the Murray - Darling Basin was so bad irrigators would not receive any water allocations in the coming season without heavy rainfall within eight weeks.

Not exact matches

For example, the Commonwealth pays the same fees and charges for the holdings, receives the same annual allocations as equivalent entitlements, and operates within the same rules including the rules relating to carryover of water between years.