NSW Sustaining the Basin: Border Rivers - Gwydir
What's new
- Training and technology demonstration evaluation report (9 June 2011)
- Update Bulletin 8 (3 June 2011)
- Irrigation Farm Water Use Efficiency Assessment Evaluation Report (21 April 2011)
Information in community consultation pack
- Irrigation Farm Water Use Efficiency Assessments - the benefits
- Download the brochure 695kb PDF
- Frequently asked questions 136kb PDF
- Eligibility criteria for irrigators 122kb PDF
- Summary of the irrigator participation process 92kb PDF
- Expression of Interest for irrigators - form 128kb PDF
- Local contacts list 148kb PDF
- Expression of Interest - Irrigation Farm Water Use Efficiency Assessment 127kb PDF
- List of approved irrigation consultants 76kb PDF
Recent news releases
- 06 Apr 2010
Irrigators shown new way to save water [42kb PDF]
Overview of the project
NSW Sustaining the Basin: Border Rivers - Gwydir (STBBRG) is an irrigation modernisation initiative of Industry & Investment NSW (I&I NSW) funded by the Australian Government's 'Water for the Future' initiative.
Industry & Investment NSW (which includes the former NSW Department of Primary Industries) will be the lead agency with administrative and operational support provided by Border Rivers - Gwydir Catchment Management Authority.
STBBRG provides an opportunity for Border Rivers and Gwydir Valley irrigators to upgrade irrigation infrastructure, improve productivity, adapt to reduced water availability and ensure the long-term sustainability of local communities.
STBBRG aims to achieve water savings by improving on-farm water use efficiency (WUE), reducing the direct extraction of water from the Gwydir and Border Rivers regulated river water sources, and return a portion of the projected savings to the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder.
Capacity building and a skills development program will complement the provision of funds for infrastructure. I&I NSW will provide irrigation training and demonstrate new irrigation technologies.
Importantly STBBRG will capture the irrigation industry's responsiveness to irrigation-modernisation-based water recovery programs and assist in determining future projects in other NSW irrigation valleys.
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