The coal seam gas industry says the National Water Commission is wrong to suggest the industry is under reporting water extraction by a factor of five to one.
An ABC investigation into the sector suggests coal seam gas wells could draw 300 gigalitres of water from the ground each year, about the same amount as households in NSW use.
Rick Wilkinson from the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association or APPEA says those claims are wrong.
"The National Water Commission used a very old number and accumulated the peak numbers. We're quite firm on our numbers and as more research is done the number seems to come down, not up."
He says the amount of water extracted in the coal seam gas mining process is quite small.
ABC Rural
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