South Australian Murray-Darling Basin
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 below.
Water licence and permit forms
Find out whether you need to apply for a water licence or permit.
Download forms for specific prescribed wells and water resources areas from the list below and apply using the instructions on the forms.
For questions about the forms below phone (08) 8595 2053.
If you are required to meter, the type of meter selected, it’s installation and the way it is maintained must be in accordance with the South Australian Licensed Water Use Meter Policy and Specification. In addition, new metering requirements are being introduced which mean that any meter installed after 1 July 2019 must comply with national metering standards. Further information on the new requirements can be found here.
If you have installed, replaced, moved, repaired or removed a water meter, please call your regional water licencing office to provide the details to the department.
To apply for an activity relating to wells, well driller's licences, notations of interest, using effluent or imported water and general meter testing, please use a statewide form.
Find out more information about other water affecting activities within the SA Murray-Darling Basin, including dam works, construction and excavation in and around watercourses, destroying vegetation in and around a watercourse and discharging water into a watercourse.
Permits and licences are required for the following water resources areas because they are covered by a Water Allocation Plan (WAP). A WAP is a legal document that sets out the rules for managing the take and use of prescribed water resources areas to ensure resource sustainability. Find out more information about what a WAP is and why they are important.
From 1 July 2017, foreign persons are 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.
Angas Bremer
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Note: The Department for Environment and Water no longer provides special meter reads and licence holders are now required to read and submit their own meter readings. To find out more about self-reads visit I need help to do a self-read. To lodge a self-read complete the Meter Reading Form. |
Eastern Mount Lofty Ranges
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Note: The Department for Environment and Water no longer provides special meter reads and licence holders are now required to read and submit their own meter readings. To find out more about self-reads visit I need help to do a self-read. To lodge a self-read complete the Meter Reading Form. |
Mallee
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| Transfer water allocation |
Note: The Department for Environment and Water no longer provides special meter reads and licence holders are now required to read and submit their own meter readings. To find out more about self-reads visit I need help to do a self-read. To lodge a self-read complete the Meter Reading Form. |
Marne Saunders
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Note: The Department for Environment and Water no longer provides special meter reads and licence holders are now required to read and submit their own meter readings. To find out more about self-reads visit I need help to do a self-read. To lodge a self-read complete the Meter Reading Form. |
Peake, Roby and Sherlock
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Note: The Department for Environment and Water no longer provides special meter reads and licence holders are now required to read and submit their own meter readings. To find out more about self-reads visit I need help to do a self-read. To lodge a self-read complete the Meter Reading Form. |
River Murray
Please note: online water licence and permit application forms are no longer available. 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, please use the PDF versions of all our water licence and permit application forms linked below.
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L4 Transfer water access entitlement on transformation of irrigation right |
S1 New site use approval. Applications are subject to a salinity zoning policy. Please see the salinity zone boundary maps before you apply. |
S2 Vary site use approval. Applications are subject to a salinity zoning policy. Please see the salinity zone boundary maps before you apply. |
| T3 Use an interstate water allocation that is tagged for use to a South Australian extraction point |
Note: The Department for Environment and Water no longer provides special meter reads and licence holders are now required to read and submit their own meter readings. To find out more about self-reads visit I need help to do a self-read. To lodge a self-read complete the Meter Reading Form. |
