Irrigation
- Agriculture,
Fisheries and Forestry
- Murray-Darling Basin Hydrogeology
- Australian National Committee - International
Commission on Irrigation and Drainage Incorporated
- aims to stimulate and promote the development and application of engineering,
agriculture, economics, ecology and social science technology to the management
of land and water in irrigation, drainage, river training and flood control
projects
- Cooperative Research Centre for
Catchment Hydrology
- central goal is to produce a decision support system able to predict the
movement of water, particulates, and solutes from land to rivers, linking
the impact of climate variability, vegetation, soil, and water management
together in an integrated package
- Cooperative Research Centre for Sustainable
Rice Production
- The Centre aims to increase the economic contribution of the rice industry
to the regional and national economy through increased production efficiency,
increased revenue from new value-added products and increased exports, and
improvements in the management of soil and water resources
- Cooperative Research
Centre for Water Quality and Treatment
- focus on issues relating to water quality management and health risk reduction,
from catchment and reservoir management and water treatment to the distribution
of drinking water to consumers' taps
- Cotton Australia
- the peak industry body for Australia's 1500 cotton growers
- CSIRO
- Resource Management for Sustainable Irrigated Agriculture
- Department of Land and Water Conservation
- the department’s role is to help the community to obtain the maximum benefit
from its limited, and sometimes fragile, natural resources
- Goulburn-Murray Water
- The region includes the major storages and the major gravity irrigation
areas in Victoria as well as pumped irrigation and waterworks districts
- History
of Irrigation in Australia
- a brief history of irrigation in Australia by the NSW Irrigators Council
- Irrigation Association of Australia
- information about the IAA and contact information
- Irrigation
New South Wales
- includes various articles, educational material, catchment profiles, production
figures, and links to other irrigation sites
- Irrigation
in South Australia - by Tony Thomson
- an extract from a report by Tony Thomson entitled Irrigation in South Australia
(1996), giving the distribution, yield, water use and value of irrigated crops
- Managing
Australia's Inland Waters
- A paper prepared by an independent working group for consideration by the
Prime Minister's Science and Engineering Council
- MDBC - Murray-Darling Basin Initiative
- managing the River Murray and the Menindee Lakes system of the lower Darling
River, and advising the Ministerial Council on matters related to the use
of the water, land and other environmental resources of the Murray-Darling
Basin
- Namoi 2000 Plus
- A community program organised by the Steering Committee, made up of members
from all over the catchment
- National Eutrophication Management Program
(NEMP)
- provide the scientific underpinning necessary for effectively managing algal
blooms
- NSW
Irrigators Council
- The NSW IRRIGATORS COUNCIL is the peak body representing irrigation
farmers across the State of New South Wales in Australia. The page lists a
comprehensive listing of Australian irrigation companies contact information
- Philmac
- Philmac is a world-class designer and manufacturer of quality pipe system
products for the control and movement of liquids and gases
- PPI Corporation
- a corporate page for advertising irrigation products, including a link page
- Ricegrowers Association of Australia
- information about the company, tanks, pumps and irrigation
- Rural Water Use
Efficiency Initiative
- a free searchable database of abstracts of documents highlighting Australian
irrigation and water management research and practices, irrigation hazards,
factsheets on irrigation scheduling and soil water management. From the Department
of Natural Resources and Mines, Queensland
- Southern Riverina Irrigation Districts'
Council (SRIDC)
- information about the company, tanks, pumps and irrigation
- The Independent Water Group
- The Independent Water Group is a group of
individual pumping and irrigation businesses who have combined resources to
offer quality products and the highest standard of service
- The Australian New Crops Project
- communications about potential new crops in Australia. Includes various
links to cropping discussion sites and research departments
- The University of Queensland School
of Agriculture and Horticulture
- This website includes links to information relating to agriculture, horticulture,
integrated crop management and farm mechanisation, as well as course information
- Water Studies Centre
- The Water Studies Centre is a multidisciplinary research centre within the
Chemistry department at Monash University, and is a major partner in the CRC
for Freshwater Ecology
- Wimmera Mallee Water
- provides rural water services over an area of three million hectares, from
the Grampians in the south to the Murray River in the north, and across to
the South Australian border
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