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Indigenous Interests in Tropical Rivers: Research & Management Issues

of the Scoping Study for Land & Water Australia’s Tropical Rivers Program

The report was requested by Land and Water Australia (LWA) as a scoping study to provide information for their new Tropical Rivers Program.

Healthy Catchments through Detection and Remediation of Contaminants with Novel Technologies

Final report on the one year project which critically tested two novel technologies for contaminant detection and treatment in catchment water contaminated by agricultural chemicals. The project brings together RMIT’s expertise (polymer compositions suitable for fungicide iprodione sensing in real ground and run-off water) and Victorian DPI expertise (analytical support and samples) to develop a chemical detection device made of a polymer. The (more)...

Coordinating Deep Drainage Research in the Northern Darling Basin - Final Report

A key issue identified by the research community working with the cotton industry was the lack of understanding and acceptance of the concept of deep drainage. Deep drainage is defined as the part of the water (applied to the surface and as rainfall or irrigation) that moves past the rootzone. In general the existing paradigm was “cotton soils don’t leak”. However, the research community related to the Australian Cotton CRC (ACCRC) (more)...

Delivering Sustainability through Risk Management

Milestone Report - August 2004

Any future expansion of irrigated agriculture in Australia is likely to occur in northern Australia. The region of Australia north of the tropic of Capricorn has abundant water resources — over 60% of the nations surface water run-off (NLWA 2001). However, there are concerns that in the rush to develop this new bonanza we will simply make the same mistakes that plague existing irrigation systems. These include: water logging, salinization, soil acidification, erosion, (more)...

The Impact of Groundwater Use on Australia

Exploring the technical, management and policy challenges - summary report

Groundwater and surface water resources are often closely linked. This has particular implications for Australia and how we manage our water. As a result of this connectivity it is possible to allocate the same resource twice, to surface water users and to groundwater users. This double allocation of the same water has reduced the flow in our rivers and streams. There has never been a nationwide review of surface water and groundwater interaction in Australia and consequently the extent of (more)...

Irrigation Insights 7 - Geophysics for the irrigation industry

Geophysical techniques involve the use of ground-based and airborne geophysical devices to measure physical properties of the earth. They can assist in the planning and management of irrigation developments by identifying the size and depth of aquifers, the connectivity between surface and ground water, the salinity of aquifers, the mineral composition and depth of the soil and the chances of successful water boring. Most geophysics applied to irrigation is in the form of imaging conducted (more)...

Real-time monitoring and control of on-farm surface irrigation systems

This report outlines the work undertaken in project UME12. It is the final project report and covers all the work completed as part of the project. The heart of the report is section 7, it draws together all topics and field work completed as part of the project, and is probably where a reader familiar with the industry, or project, should begin. If further details are required on any topics then other sections can be referred to.

Performance testing of automatic irrigation equipment for surface irrigation

technical report

The AITC, in collaboration with Goulburn-Murray Water, NSW Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Victoria and automatic flood irrigation equipment (AFIE) manufacturers, undertook the project Performance Testing of Automatic Irrigation Equipment for Flood Irrigation. The project was sponsored by the National Program for Irrigation Research and Development (NPIRD). The project objectives (more)...