In addition to the severity of the landscape the remoteness, isolation and challenging access routes to these expansive cattle stations served a challenge for pastoralists to obtain advice and materials to undertake water development.
Recognising the need for a tailored solution, the Brown’s founded Northern Stock Water, which quickly expanded into the largest end-to-end rural water development company in Northern Australia, designing, manufacturing, supplying and installing their own quality polyethylene pipe, concrete troughs, water tanks and selected fittings in the NT.
The rapid success and growth of Northern Stock Water led to the expansion of their business into multiple streams, eventually consolidating under the Bilba Group of Companies, which includes brands such as Elsam, Great Northern Tanks, Northbound Precast, Joco Fencing, and Austral Ag.