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Modernising Irrigation Forum, Presentations, March 2009

Modernising Irrigation Forum - The Lower Burdekin from Land and Water Australia on (more)...

Ecologically sustainable irrigation development

issues paper

There has recently been significant discussion across Australia, both within the community and in federal and state governments, over the potential development of new major irrigation schemes (e.g. Australian Financial Review 1998). Some states, such as Queensland, have openly pursued a pro-development path, announcing the Water Infrastructure Planning and Development Implementation Program in 1997 (QDNR 1997a), following submissions from the community via a Water (more)...

Increasing Irrigation Efficiencies in the Australian Sugar Industry

In 1995 the Land and Water Resources Research and Development Corporation funded the two-year project ‘Increasing Irrigation Efficiencies in the Australian Sugar Industry’. The main aim of the project was to develop a model for the adoption of improved irrigation practices using grower focus groups and participatory interaction. Since the Burdekin district of north Queensland is the largest single area of sugarcane that is furrow irrigated in Australia, the project was focussed on (more)...