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Irrigation Update No. 4: Newsletter of the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation

In this issue

• Confidence in reclaimed water
• Addressing the silent time bomb - researchers look at how to combat the build up of salinity around the rootzone
• About the NPSI Knowledge base
• Open Hydroponics - A new approach to intensive orchard management

Adopting improved use of current water monitoring technology to manage recharge

Rising watertables are a major threat to the sustainability of irrigated agriculture in the southern Murray-Darling Basin. Future sustainability will depend on the ability of each irrigation farmer to choose paddock-crop-irrigation management combinations that control impacts on watertables on their farm. There is a perception that the technology already exists to enable farmers to manage water sustainably, and that the problem is one of adoption rather than the development of new technology. However, (more)...