Regulated River Water Sources from NSW Water Sharing Plans

New South Wales regulated river water sources derived from In Force Water Sharing Plans gazetted under the NSW Water Management Act 2000. The dataset is an aggregation of plan boundaries and attributes provided by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. It was last updated on 2026-05-13.

Use Cases

• Map water resource management zones based on gazetted Water Sharing Plan boundaries.
• Analyze water allocation frameworks for regulated river systems.
• Support regulatory compliance and decision-making using spatial plan data.

Strengths

• Derived from official Water Sharing Plans gazetted under NSW legislation.
• Spatial data is provided in multiple geospatial formats (WMS, WFS, ESRI REST).
• Explicitly licensed under CC-BY 4.0 for open sharing.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is a 'best endeavours' representation and may contain discrepancies from the authoritative legal instrument.

Provenance

Source

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.

Collection Method

Best endeavours aggregation and depiction from In Force Water Sharing Plans.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 02:04:45.056245; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia.