Under our draft decisions, increases in WAMC’s water management component charges would be limited to an average of 5% per year (i.e. 7.7% in year 1, 5% in year 2 and 5% in year 3) or 15.8% over the three years to 2027-28 (before inflation).
For customers on the Minimum Annual Charge (MAC), the increase in WAMC’s water management component would be limited to an average of 2.5% per year (i.e. 4.1% in year 1, 2.5% in year 2 and 2.5% in year 3) or 7.7% over the three years to 2027-28 (before inflation).
We received a high volume of submissions to our Issues Paper from stakeholders expressing concerns that the proposed increases in water charges (including those proposed by WAMC) could have significant detrimental impacts on water users, including agricultural and town water providers, and on regional and rural communities. In making our draft decisions we considered the affordability impacts of the proposed prices, opportunities to adjust projects, and how costs are shared between licence holders and the NSW Government.
In reaching our draft decisions, we also considered expert advice from Stantec on WAMC’s efficient capital and operating expenditure, and our legislative responsibilities.
Our draft decisions attempt to balance establishing the efficient costs of WAMC’s services and transitioning prices towards full cost reflective levels while mitigating the financial impact on water users.
We thank all stakeholders for their input
We sought feedback on our draft decisions and recommendations between 3 June and 1 July 2025. We thank all stakeholders for their input during this period. We will consider all submissions and survey responses before preparing and releasing our Final Report on WAMC’s prices from 1 October 2025.
Submissions received for Draft Report - Review of prices for the Water Administration Ministerial Corporation from 1 October 2025 to 30 June 2028 - June 2025
Date received | Entity | Name | Download |
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6 Jun 2025 | Individual | B. KING | |
16 Jun 2025 | Organisation | Name suppressed (W25/1877) (Confidential) ** | |
1 Jul 2025 | Murray Darling Basin Authority | Name suppressed (W25/2030) | |
1 Jul 2025 | Murray Irrigation | Name suppressed (W25/2037) | |
1 Jul 2025 | New South Wales Irrigators Council | Name suppressed (W25/2038) | |
1 Jul 2025 | Murrumbidgee Irrigation | Name suppressed (W25/2039) | |
1 Jul 2025 | NSW Natural Resources Commission | Name suppressed (W25/2040) | |
1 Jul 2025 | Organisation | Name suppressed (W25/2041) (Confidential) ** | |
1 Jul 2025 | Lachlan Valley Water INC | G. Daley | |
4 Jul 2025 | Organisation | Name suppressed (W25/2047) (Confidential) ** | |
3 Jul 2025 | Water Administration Ministerial Corporation | A. Lean | |
29 Jun 2025 | Dumarequ-Barwon Border Rivers Commission | D. Hodgon | |
29 Jun 2025 | Coleambally Irrigation Co-operative Limited | J. Speed | |
30 Jun 2025 | Central NSW Joint Organisation | Name suppressed (W25/2057) | |
1 Jul 2025 | NSW Farmers | Name suppressed (W25/2058) | |
8 Jul 2025 | Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder | S. Banks | |
1 Jul 2025 | Hunter Valley Water Users Association | Name suppressed (W25/2064) | |
11 Jul 2025 | Macquarie River Food and Fibre | M. Drum | |
1 Jul 2025 | Murrumbidgee Private lrrigators Inc and Murrumbidgee Groundwater Inc | Name suppressed (W25/2078) | |
3 Jul 2025 | Natural Resources Access Regulator | C. Knowles AM |
* Part of submission not published due to confidentiality and/or other legal reasons
** Submission not published due to confidentiality and/or other legal reasons