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Irrigation in Australia. Facts and figures

Facts and figures about irrigation in Australia.

Benchmarking the distribution efficiency of an irrigation supply system

Project No.GMW3 - Final Report

Project objectives To benchmark the distribution efficiency (DE) of the various components of a small, open channel gravity irrigation system and irrigation return flows from farms to the surface drainage system. To develop strategies to overcome water losses in the distribution system, including the implementation of smart systems for improved channel operations, system planning and services to improve the integration of distribution systems (more)...

Know the Flow: Development of improved flow measurement in irrigation water supply

Final Report

The “Know The Flow” project was initiated in 1997 to address issues relating to the accurate measurement of the delivery of irrigation water to farms. The current most common method, the Dethridge Wheel, was perceived to have problems in some applications. The project was conceived to research solutions to these problems.

Economic and environmentally sustainable use of various water supply sources for irrigation

In spite of the availability of powerful, user-friendly, model-specific pre- and postprocessing software, groundwater modelling is difficult. One of the main reasons for this is the necessity to transfer large amounts of data into and out of models, and between models, databases and visualisation and display software. The Groundwater Data Utilities were written to complement existing models, and their graphical pre- and postprocessors, were developed in an attempt to overcome some of the (more)...

Open Hydroponics: Risks and Opportunities

Water Supply Impact Assessment Report

The aim of this assessment was to examine the irrigation supply related issues that relate to existing and more importantly potential enterprises undertaking Open Hydroponic (OH) irrigation within the major irrigation districts of Victoria and New South Wales. While this assessment looked at the irrigation of Citrus in particular, it did not exclude the use of OH on other crops and sought to address the supply issues for all (more)...