I am an irrigation farmer, very reliant on the security of water for my livelihood; I am very concerned with the pressure on the long-term availability of water for irrigated agriculture. There is not doubt that the value of water will escalate rapidly as we enter the twenty-first century. Competition from four areas will pressure the value and reliability for water. These areas are Environment, Urban, Industrial and Agricultural. Of these four, Irrigated Agriculture, while placing the highest demand for water, has the least ability to pay. No one disagrees that we need to find the balance between the use of water for Urban, Industrial and Agriculture, and an allocation for the environment. To this end, Government bodies are pointing to water users that we need to be looking at efficiencies in our use and application of this finite resource