About the area
Lower Murray Water’s area of operation extends along the Murray River from Kerang to the South Australian border, taking in the municipalities of Mildura, Swan Hill and Gannawarra.
Lower Murray Water provides urban water and wastewater services, and it supplies river-quality water to domestic and stock users as well as irrigation customers. It also operates subsurface irrigation drainage water collection systems.
Lower Murray Water operates 4 irrigation water supply systems, 3 other rural water supply systems and 10 urban water supply systems.
More information on the water corporation can be found at Lower Murray
2022-23 overview
Urban deliveries
15,406 ML of urban residential and non-residential deliveries were made in 2022-23, less than the previous year (18,922 ML).
Rural deliveries
94,718 ML of rural deliveries were made in rural systems in 2022-23, less than the previous year (116,518 ML).
Wastewater recycled at treatment plants
43% of wastewater was recycled (2,769 ML of 6,488 ML), similar to 46% in 2021-22.
Water deliveries
Urban systems
Lower Murray Water operates 10 urban water supply systems. Water is sourced from the Murray basin.
Table 1: Urban system water balance, Lower Murray Water
Rural systems
Lower Murray Water operates 7 rural supply systems and sources water from the Murray basin.
Table 2: Rural system water balance, Lower Murray Water
Recycled water
Water recycled at wastewater treatment plants can be used to supplement water available in river basins. Table 3 lists the wastewater treatment plants managed by Lower Murray Water. Water discharged to the environment from treatment plants is included as an inflow to the water balance for each of the river basins.
More information can be found in How we account for water supply.
