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(proof version) Nationally, 31,893 businesses reported barriers to changing irrigation practices. The most common barrier reported was lack of financial resources, reported by 56.1per cent of all agricultural businesses in Australia reporting barriers to change.
(Full Article)(proof version) Very little rain fell across the Basin this week with the highest falls (5 10 mm) occurring over central Victoria and in South Australia.
(Full Article)(proof version) The River Murray Water end of July assessment provided Victoria with an additional 45 GL, net of adjustments to interstate water accounts.
(Full Article)(proof version)The River Murray Water end of July assessment provided Victoria with an additional 45 GL, net of adjustments to interstate water accounts. South Australia had at least a further 58 GL to repay Victoria from its share of future MDBC resource improvements.
(Full Article)(proof version) The seasonal allocations for Goulburn-Murray Water customers on 15 Aug 2008 were zero for Broken, Goulburn, Campaspe, Loddon, Bullarook Creek.
(Full Article)(proof version) . The River Murray system remains in severe drought. The long-term average inflow for July is 1 190 GL and the previous minimum for July was 135 GL in July 2006.
(Full Article)(proof version) The Murray - Darling drought had extended and, there was only 1 570 GL in daily flows for the Basin, Emergency measures were now a way of life in the Murray - Darling Basin. The shortfall in River Murray water resources left either no water at all or barely enough for flows for critical needs.
(Full Article)Tim Holding Victoria Minister for Water, said Victoria rejected an intergovernmental agreement to connect the Goulburn system to the Murray system, as part of the new commonwealth arrangements.
(Full Article)Tim Holding Victoria, Minister for Water said $2 billion was to be spent to replace outdated irrigation infrastructure in the states north.
(Full Article)Peter Crisp - Nationals Member for Mildura - said the plan to repeal the Farm Water Supplies Advances Act - and other water acts, would create water problems for Mildura irrigators.
(Full Article)Victoria had closed a 113 year old irrigation authority; First Mildura Irrigation Trust breached prudential rules; assets were passed to Lower Murray Water
(Full Article)PROOF : First Murray Irrigation Trust had invested $2 million - intended for irrigation works - in Grange, and lost it when market crashed. The lost money, and reduced rainfall and allocations meant FMIT was no longer financially viable. It had made bad decisions, and poor management.
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