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The Barmah Choke water trade balance to start the 2025–26 water year will deliver a substantial trade opportunity for water users.

Interstate water trading allows water users to trade water across state borders where river systems are connected. This allows irrigators to source water from, or sell water to, a broader range of users.

It’s been 10 years since the implementation of the Basin Plan water trading rules in the Murray–Darling Basin.

The Barmah Choke water trade balance to start the 2024–25 water year will deliver trade opportunity for irrigators.

You can now get all your information from the one place, instead of going to many different websites.

The Barmah Choke has a default trade restriction in place. This is necessary to protect water delivery to existing water entitlement holders and maintain the river environment in the Choke.

The Barmah Choke is a naturally occurring narrow stretch of the River Murray. A default trade restriction is in place at the Choke to protect water delivery to existing entitlement holders and for environmental reasons.

A large number of water access rights are traded throughout the Basin. These rights all have different characteristics including priority, reliability and form of take.

To continue to support the efficient functioning of water markets in the River Murray system, the Murray–Darling Basin Authority and water agencies and authorities from New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia have been investigating better ways to make trade adjustments.

The operation of the Barmah Choke trade restriction is specified in the Permissible Transfers between Trading Zones Protocol 2010. The opening balance for the Choke water account on 1 July is based on the Snowy water savings that were realised downstream of the Choke in the previous water year and reflected in allocations against the Entitlement Record.