The Natural Resources Access Regulator (NRAR) has doubled its team in Dubbo with the recruiting of 11 new routine monitoring officers.
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The new recruits are visiting landholders to check they are "complying with their water licences and approvals".
Landholders are contacted before a visit.
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An NRAR spokeswoman said the new recruits would work "throughout Western NSW as operational needs require".
"However, they will mostly be working in catchments closer to Dubbo, such as the Macquarie, Lachlan, Namoi and tributaries," she said.
The 11 new officers at Dubbo are among 28 also assigned to teams at Tamworth and Deniliquin.
"NRAR now has 180 staff across NSW, with the majority being operational staff," its spokeswoman said.
"There are an additional 11 routine monitoring staff based in Dubbo, who will be joining the 11 other staff, who work across several NRAR functions."
NRAR's director water regulation west, Gregory Abood, said it used many methods to determine compliance with NSW water laws including property inspections and the likes of drones and satellite imagery.
"Now that the regulator has expanded its on-the-ground presence in regional NSW we will be able to visit three times as many properties in the next 12 months than in the previous financial year," he said.
"In doing so, we will increase public confidence in water regulation."
The new recruits underwent three weeks of intensive training to become authorised officers under the Water Management Act 2000.
Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders make up a quarter of them.
Mr Abood said NRAR had prioritised diversity in its latest recruitment drive.
"We're proud to see the NRAR team expand to include new field officers from all walks of life," he said.
Among the new recruits in Dubbo are an Indigenous woman from Wiradjuri land with a Diploma in Conservation and Land Management, a recent Australian permanent resident, and a former paralegal.
NRAR was established two-and-a-half years ago to be an "independent, transparent and effective regulator with total carriage of the compliance and enforcement of water management legislation in NSW".
NRAR officers recently visited Dubbo to inspect bores as part of Operation Drawdown.
