Water Exchange Australia Pty Ltd, trading as Wilks Water, is a well-established company with over 25 years of experience in the water trading industry. Wilks Water was founded by Tom Wilks, one of Australia’s foremost experts on water broking, holding a Bachelor of Business (Land Economy) from the University of Western Sydney (Hawkesbury), is a current member of the Australian Water Brokers Association and past President and Vice-President of the Australian Water Brokers Association.
Wilks Water has built a strong reputation for brokering sales of Temporary and Permanent Water transfers in the Murrumbidgee Valley, New South Wales Murray, Victoria, and Lachlan Valley.
Wilks Water provides water brokerage services to all customers ranging from irrigators, landholders, businesses, private and public entities as well as smaller trading individuals. We are vastly experienced in water allocation (temporary) trading and permanent entitlement transfers, we have the networks to realise higher sale prices, we have well-established reciprocal relationships with water authorities along with other stakeholders and perhaps most importantly – we have core company values based on honesty and integrity in all our business dealings.
The Wilks Water team have an extensive knowledge of water trading rules for surface and groundwater water sources and has built a strong network of water partners, with extensive local knowledge, strategically located throughout the Murray Darling Basin. These water partners, or Agents, work in collaboration with Wilks Water to establish relationships with water traders in their various local areas, thus bringing local knowledge and experience to a diverse range of water sources located throughout NSW and Victoria and even South Australia.