Agency Name: | GoulburnMurray Water |
Type: | Statutory authority |
Nativename: | GoulburnMurray Rural Water Corporation |
Picture Width: | 250 |
Picture Caption: | Dartmouth Dam in the background, managed by GoulburnMurray Water, with in the foreground. |
Jurisdiction: | Northern Victoria, Australia |
Budget: | 301 million |
Minister1 Name: | Harriet Shing |
Minister1 Pfo: | Minister for Water |
Chief2 Position: | CEO |
Parent Department: | Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning |
Goulburn–Murray Water, the trading name of the GoulburnMurray Rural Water Corporation, a statutory authority of the Victorian Government, provides bulk water storage and supply services to people of Northern Country/North Central Victoria and the Southern Riverina regions in Australia.[1]
Established pursuant to the, GoulburnMurray Water manages bulk water supplies to local governmentowned water utilities, provides flood mitigation services, and manages the health of the Goulburn and Murray rivers catchment in northern Victoria. GoulburnMurray Water also provides irrigation services to about stretching from the Great Dividing Range to the south, the Murray River to the north and stretching from in the east to .[1]
GoulburnMurray Water is managed by a managing director who reports to a Board of Management that are ultimately responsible to the Minister for Water, presently Harriet Shing. The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning provides administrative oversight of the statutory authority.
In 2011 it was reported that GoulburnMurray Water had an operating shortfall of 80 million in its budget.[2]