Irrigation Management

The On-ground Water Use Efficiency Project provides irrigators with education and awareness programs to encourage the adoption of irrigation best management practices and improve irrigation water use efficiency.

While irrigation technology is well adopted throughout the region, a full understanding and high level of education is often not provided with this technology. This project endeavours to fill the education void left, which complements the technology in use today. It does this through the use of irrigation courses, awareness tools, scheduling trials, subsidized programs and Irrigation Field officers, which offer one on one on-farm support to irrigators.

The project is a partnership between the River Murray Local Action Planning Groups, Central Irrigation Trust, Renmark Irrigation Trust, and the South Australian Murray-Darling Basin Natural Resources Management Board. The project area extends from the South Australian Border to the Lower Lakes, and is available to all irrigators within this area. The partners in this project are encompassed under the label of the Improving Irrigation Efficiency Project logo.

This website has links to all of the project activities, courses available, and informative fact sheets, as well as links to valuable information concerning the river locally and abroad.