Water licence and permit forms

Please note: The end of the 2023-24 water use year is fast approaching. To ensure your application is considered by end of year, please get your applications in by 5pm on Friday 14 June 2024.

Notice: Change in Forms Availability

The online water licence and permit application forms listed across the DEW website will not be available after 11am Friday 28 June 2024.

You will soon be able to lodge water licence and permit applications online through South Australia’s new mywater portal. We will be supporting water users to get set up to use mywater over the next 12 months.

In the interim, you can download PDF versions of all our water licence and permit application forms on the relevant pages below.

Forms for specific prescribed water resources areas

To apply for a new licence, vary a current licence, transfer a licence and more, click on the relevant prescribed water resources area:

Angas Bremer
Barossa
Central Adelaide
Chapmans Creek Intake
Clare Valley
Dry Creek
Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges
Far North
Little Para
Mallee
McLaren Vale
Marne Saunders
Middle Beach Intake
Northern Adelaide Plains
Peake, Roby and Sherlock
River Murray
South East (Tatiara, Padthaway, Lower Limestone Coast, Tintinara-Coonalpyn and Morambro Creek and Nyroca Channel PWC)
Southern Basins or Musgrave (Eyre)
Western Mount Lofty Ranges

Note: South Australia has a new Water Register and mywater – a new portal for water users and businesses to do business with government online.

More information is available here.

If you wish to trade water (allocation) for use during the 2023/24 water year or to balance your water account before 30 June 2024, please complete the NEW Application to transfer water allocation (linked for each region above) before 14 June 2024.

If you wish to trade water for a longer period or for use after 30 June 2024, please phone your regional water licencing office, using the numbers below.

We will guide you through the new application process for these trades. It is important that you apply for these trades before Friday 14 June, to ensure that they can be assessed and (if appropriate) approved before 30 June 2024.

Water meter forms

To provide a meter self-read, submit an online meter reading form.

Important note: The Meter Read Form has changed. To assist you to submit your annual meter read(s), please refer to your meter notification letter. These will be sent in the week commencing 1 July 2024. If you know your meter serial numbers, you can submit a meter read at any time using the new form.

Please note: You will not receive a water usage advice after submitting your meter read(s) for the 2023/24 water year. If you require information about your licence or account balance, please contact your regional water licencing office.

To provide details about a new meter or a change to a meter, please contact your regional water licencing office.

Forms applicable throughout the state for specific purposes

To apply for one of the following activities, select the relevant form on the statewide page:

note or remove an interest in a water licence
drain or discharge water into a well
use imported water (except Clare Valley)
use effluent water
water meter test
well driller's licence application, renewal or variation
well construction permit.

Additionally, from 1 July 2017, foreign persons were required to register their interests in registerable water entitlements and contractual water rights on the Register of Foreign Ownership of Water Entitlements. To find out more and how to register, follow this link.

Contact your local water licence office

For more information about water licences and permits please contact us:

Location	Phone	Office Location	Team	Email
Berri	8595 2053	28 Vaughan Tce, Berri 5343	Trade team	DEWWatertrade@sa.gov.au
Berri	8595 2053	28 Vaughan Tce, Berri 5343	Data team	DEW.Waterlicensingberri@sa.gov.au
Adelaide	8463 6876	81-95 Waymouth Street, Adelaide SA 5000	Trade team	DEWwaterlicensing@sa.gov.au
Mount Gambier	8735 1134	152 Jubilee Highway East	Trade team	DEW.LCWaterLicensing@sa.gov.au