Table B.6 State and territory government water registers a The NWI specifies registers should include both permanent and temporary trades. b 201516 trade volumes. .. Not applicable. Sources: ABARES (2017, fig. maps 1-5, 1-6, 1-9, 1-10); DELWP (Vic) (2017c); DENR (NT) (2017d); DPI (NSW) (2017b); DPIPWE (Tas) (2016b); DWER (WA) (2017b); EPSPD (ACT) (2017); Queensland Government (2016, 2017a); South Australian Government (2015, 2017b); Tasmanian Irrigation (2017b). Neither Victoria or New South Wales provide both the trade contract date and registration date, and it is not clear which date measure is used for the Queensland trade summaries. South register does list two dates a registration date and date transferred. Australia’s — The National Water Market System (NWMS) project, which commenced in 2008, sought to enable seamless data transfer between water registers (interoperability) and to provide uptodate water market information that was easily accessible. More than $30 million was invested in the NWMS, but the project was terminated in 2014. The NWC (2014c, p. 41) reported that is unclear which actions have been implemented and what, if any, objectives ‘it have been achieved’. One consequence of the NWMS being abandoned is that some planned improvements to state registers were not implemented. The NWMS developed a design for a common registry system that would have involved a national portal linked to high performance state registers. Some States delayed work on improving their own systems expecting that the NWMS would deliver useful results (NWC 2014c). The Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment reported that with the sudden withdrawal of Australian
Table B.6 State and territory government water registers a The NWI specifies registers should include both permanent and temporary trades. b 201516 trade volumes. .. Not applicable. Sources: ABARES (2017, fig. maps 1-5, 1-6, 1-9, 1-10); DELWP (Vic) (2017c); DENR (NT) (2017d); DPI (NSW) (2017b); DPIPWE (Tas) (2016b); DWER (WA) (2017b); EPSPD (ACT) (2017); Queensland Government (2016, 2017a); South Australian Government (2015, 2017b); Tasmanian Irrigation (2017b). Neither Victoria or New South Wales provide both the trade contract date and registration date, and it is not clear which date measure is used for the Queensland trade summaries. South Australia’s register does list two dates — a registration date and date transferred. The National Water Market System (NWMS) project, which commenced in 2008, sought to enable seamless data transfer between water registers (interoperability) and to provide uptodate water market information that was easily accessible. More than $30 million was invested in the NWMS, but the project was terminated in 2014. The NWC (2014c, p. 41) reported that ‘it is unclear which actions have been implemented and what, if any, objectives have been achieved’. One consequence of the NWMS being abandoned is that some planned improvements to state registers were not implemented. The NWMS developed a design for a common registry system that would have involved a national portal linked to high performance state registers. Some States delayed work on improving their own systems expecting that the NWMS would deliver useful results (NWC 2014c). The Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment reported that with the sudden withdrawal of Australian
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