Forrest fails in bid to use sacred water for WA station

Andrew Forrest's appeal to use water from a sacred river on his WA cattle station has failed. (Bianca De Marchi/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

Billionaire Andrew Forrest has failed in a bid to overturn a decision stopping him from using water from a river, sacred to traditional owners, to irrigate his pastoral property.

The WA State Administrative Tribunal rejected an appeal by Mr Forrest's cattle company to build nine weirs along the Ashburton River, also known as Mindurru.