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The department prepares annual watering plans each water year (July to June) for the valleys where we actively manage water for the environment. These plans are based on advice received from environmental water advisory groups.

'Carryover' is licensed water that remains unused in accounts at the end of the water year.

We work closely with the community to deliver water for the environment to priority sites across the state.

This program provides funding through organics infrastructure streams.

Landholders are playing a central role in the protection and restoration of wetlands on private properties.

This program provided co-funding for waste and recycling infrastructure to support the resource recovery industry to respond to Australia’s waste export ban.

Want to know more about water for the environment? Get involved.

This round of funding offered regional and remote organisations in New South Wales the opportunity to apply for funding from a total pool of $7 million available nationally through the Australian Government’s Recycling Modernisation Fund (RMF).

The Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water is responsible for the delivery of all water for the environment in NSW. This includes water held by the Commonwealth Environmental Water Office.

River Connections is a one-off contestable grant program that co-funds a large scale, long-term collaborative partnership to tackle river and aquatic degradation at the landscape scale.