Water policies and guidelines
Find policies, guidelines, frameworks and statements on water activities in the Northern Territory (NT) below.
You should also read about changes to water rules.
Policies
- Water allocation planning framework PDF (430.1 KB)
- Strategic Aboriginal water reserves policy framework PDF (419.8 KB)
- Authorised officer policy PDF (736.4 KB)
- Compliance and enforcement policy PDF (598.4 KB)
- Recovery of unused licensed water entitlements policy PDF (830.3 KB) and procedure PDF (320.6 KB)
- Surface water take - wet season flows policy PDF (579.3 KB)
- Processing water extraction licence applications policy PDF (771.7 KB)
- Publishing notices under the Water Act operational policy PDF (437.7 KB)
- Trading licensed water entitlements policy PDF (397.2 KB)
Guidelines
- Acceptable change to groundwater dependent vegetation in the Western Davenport Water Control District guidelines PDF (1.7 MB)
- Interference with a waterway guidelines PDF (324.6 KB)
- Staged water extraction licence guidelines PDF (224.6 KB)