Eligible water users have less than three weeks to opt in so they can receive free telemetry and installation, saving them significant out-of-pocket costs and helping them become compliant with metering rules.
Earlier this year, the Australian Government announced the $10.5 million Telemetry Uplift Program which will deliver free state-of-the-art telemetry devices to more than 2500 groundwater and surface water sites across the NSW Murray−Darling Basin.
The program aims to boost the state’s water monitoring and management, ease costs for users, and help NSW fast-track its metering reforms.
There are now less than three weeks left for eligible water users to register their interest.
Eligible sites include those extracting from groundwater and unregulated river sources in the Murray−Darling Basin with an annual entitlement of 100 megalitres or greater. Sites drawing from groundwater systems will be given priority.
Telemetry supports sustainable water use by sending real-time data to water management agencies, helping to ensure licensed water taken from inland regional water sources is extracted fairly, equitably and according to the rules.
Telemetry installations are expected to begin in the first half of the year.
