In July 2000, an Integrating Our Approaches workshop involving trigators from the Emerald

Irrigation Area (EIA) and Dawson Valley, private sector consultants, Industry Development

officers, and staff from NR&M, DPI and Sunwater explored how property planning

requirements could be rationalised. The workshop brought together the different groups

involved in such activities with cotton, and the fruit and vegetable sector - the development of best management practices, water use efficiency, water and vegetation reform, crop production, and property level land and water management plans. It was the first time all these different groups had got together to talk about how to make the property planning process simpler, be it voluntary or regulatory. The workshop explored issues such as duplication and rationalisation of effort, information access and management, grower experiences, cost and incentives, property versus landscape scale.