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Irrigation Insights 1 - Information Package on Soil Water Monitoring

This Irrigation Insights information package brings together information on current equipment and techniques for measuring and monitoring soil water status, extending to their use as controllers in automatic irrigation systems. We have limited the equipment described here to those products with agents and backup within Australia. The hub of the publication is a collection of tables summarising the main product features. This enables you to compare product features. As well as technical data, (more)...

Scoping Study: Improving plants' water use efficiency and potential impacts from soil structure change - research investment opp

The key questions addressed by this scoping study are:

  • What understanding, techniques and tools require further explanation or development to improve water use efficiency?
  • How well do we understand the impacts of long-term irrigation on soil structure? What are the effects of soil structure change (within and around the root zone on the flow of water and rate of movement along various pathways of salts?

Practical Index of Salinity Models National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality

Tools, models and frameworks for planning

This CD originally came with the publication Groundwater models - a community guide to better understanding from the Murray Darling Basin Commission, Canberra.

Using market-based instruments to secure water for environmental flows

Over recent decades the extractive use of water in Australia has dramatically increased, leading to greater agricultural production and, in many instances, to the degradation of riverine ecosystems, loss of productive land and impacts on water quality and biodiversity. In response, Australian governments’ are progressing a range of water policy reforms, with recent inter-governmental agreements committing in excess of $1b to enhancing flows and environmental outcomes along the Snowy and (more)...

Natural resource buybacks and their use to secure environmental flows

Governments have committed to investigating the use of market based instruments such as ‘buybacks’ to source water for environmental needs. Buybacks are common in some natural resource sectors and have been used in the water sector as well. However, there is limited experience or research in Australia to investigate how buybacks could be structured. There has been little focus to date on alternatives to the outright purchase of entitlements, such as the buying of ‘partial’ (more)...

Land & Water Australia

Land & Water Australia is responsible for research and development aimed at the productive and sustainable management of the land, water and vegetation resources underpinning Australia’s primary industries and regional communities. Funding Australia’s best and brightest researchers, Land & Water Australia possess a wealth of knowledge on our natural resources. Its mission is to provide national leadership in generating (more)...

About Land, Water & Wool

Managing Australia’s Natural Resources Woolgrowers in Australia manage over 85 million hectares of the country’s land and water resources, from the high rainfall areas on the coastal fringe, to the wheat/sheep belt and inland to the saltbush and mulga of the pastoral zone. Across this vast area, the industry faces many environmental challenges - dryland salinity, protecting waterways and looking after native vegetation — all within a variable climate and the desire to (more)...