WHAT WE DO REALLY WELL

Water & Irrigation Law

We provide specialist advice to irrigators, irrigation corporations, mining companies, banks and landholders on water rights in the Murray Darling Basin. We understand the complex State and Federal laws and regulations in this ever-changing area.

Our Expertise

  • Purchase and sale of water licences

  • Interpretation of trading rules and water management planning

  • Water use efficiency projects and agreements

  • Leasing of water licences

  • Mortgage and security over licences

  • Transformation of licences

  • Compliance with licence and approval conditions

  • Floodplain management issues

  • Irrigation farm due diligence

  • Joint holding agreements

  • Irrigation corporations

Our Experience

Our recent experience:

  • Purchase of $15+ million Murrumbidgee Regulated water entitlement

  • Sale of $30 Million water portfolio

  • Advice to irrigation corporation on rights of mining company

  • Advice on the impact of regulator and ministerial decisions for water groups

  • Negotiation and lease of water entitlements

  • Drafting of joint water users agreements in northern NSW

  • Advice in relation to groundwater entitlements and gas mining