The Register of foreign ownership of water entitlements (the Water register) was established to provide greater transparency about the level of foreign ownership of Australia’s water entitlements.

The Commissioner of Taxation reports annually to the Treasurer on the operation of the Register of Foreign Ownership of Water or Agricultural Land Act 2015 (the Act) and is required to publish aggregate statistics of foreign ownership each year.

This is the fifth report of the Water register (Water report 2022) and includes water entitlement registrations received from foreign persons between 1 July 2017 and 31 July 2022 for water entitlements held to 30 June 2022.