New South Wales

This page has links to useful information about irrigation areas in New South Wales. The links are sorted by irrigation profiles for catchments, the HELP program and modernisation projects. Also see the Who’s Who page for links to organisations involved with irrigation in New South Wales.

Use the links in the left-hand menu to access information about:

• specific irrigation areas

• other states and territories.

Irrigation profiles

The NSW Department of Primary Industries produced these irrigation profiles. They are summaries, and are supplied as pdf files. They cover the following areas:

• Border Rivers (NSW) catchment

• Greater Macquarie catchment

• Gwydir catchment

• Lachlan catchment

• Murrumbidgee catchment

• NSW Mid–Coast region

• NSW North Coast region

• Sydney–South Coast region

Profiles for the Darling–Barwon, Murray, and Namoi catchments have not been released as yet.

HELP program

Lower Murrumbidgee HELP basin project

The HELP (Hydrology, Environment, Life and Policy) Program is working to establish a global network of catchments. The Lower Murrumbidgee is one of the 25 pilot basins. The program is a joint effort of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the World Meteorological Organization.

Modernisation projects

• Achieving sustainable groundwater entitlements in NSW for future generations

• Coleambally Irrigation Cooperative Limited’s Water Smart Australia project

• Darling Anabranch scheme—water recovery project

• Darling River—water savings project

• Feasibility study of options to improve water supply and management of the Darling River

• Great Artesian Basin Sustainability Initiative—Cap and pipe the bores

• Lifting Irrigated Cropping Profitability and Water Use Efficiency (NSW)—Irrigated Cropping Forum project

• NSW Riverbanks

• The Living Murray initiative

• Water for rivers

• The Murray Research and Development Council

• The Lachlan Irrigation Research and Advisory Council Inc.

• Murrumbidgee Irrigation

• Macquarie River Food and Fibre

• Coleambally Irrigation Area

 

Please let us know about other useful links to information on irrigation areas in New South Wales.