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Irrigation
water is a scarce commodity and there are many changes occurring in the
water industry. As a result, a Rural Water Use Efficiency Initiative
(RWUEI) has been initiated and funded by the Queensland Government through
the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), BSES and CANEGROWERS are
partners in this program. The aim of the sugar industry scheme is to
improve the water use efficiency by 6 per cent and to have 70 per cent of
irrigators using best management practices by 2003. CANEGROWERS,
BSES and DNR aim to achieve these results through a jointly developed
program, which began with a 'stock take' and will benchmark water use
efficiency across the industry. An adoption program, where best
management practice will be development and implemented on farm, has
followed. The initiative will be evaluated to determine the
cost/benefit of the project. |
