The term 'Environmental Flows' has come into common usage. To some this term apples to releases from dams which are specificallly for environmental benefit. To others it can be any flow which achieves an environmental benefit.

A description of the National Land and Water resources Audit

Decision making on mixed farms is a complex process. Many factors are taken into account simultaneously, with finance, family, environment and risk all part of the mix. This social research project will investigate the decision making processes from a people perspective and identify ways to help farmers make difficult decisions around managing mixed farming systems with more confidence.

This fact sheet gives a brief overview of the projects run by the Defeating The Weed Menace Research and Development Program. Fourteen projects were selected during an initial funding round and they address four different themes.

Right now, it is very difficult to accurately measure the water losses from evaporation on farm dams but a recent scoping study funded by the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation estimated the loss is as high as 7,000 gigalitres per year from Queensland's section of the Murray-Darling Basin alone. Given that water extracted from our waterways for all purposes is around 20,000 gigalitres per annum in the whole of Australia, the potential savings from addressing evaporation losses are obviously worth pursuing.

Summarises information about in-stream wetlands and their management, so that woolgrowers can make informed decisions about what to do on their own property. This booklet includes definitions of basic terms, importance of waterways and wetlands, case study.

The partial root zone drying (PRD) method of irrigation, originally developed for grapevines, is now being used in a range of perennial tree crops in Australia and achieving some exciting results in citrus and pears, as well as grapes. The technique requires that wet and dry root zones are created simultaneously around each plant.

This booklet is one of a series published by Land and Water Australia about regional rangeland community planning processes. Others in the series include: Rangeways: Community Based Planning for Ecologically Sustainable Land Use in the North East Goldfields of Western Australia Central Highlands Regional Resource Use Planning Project: a Planning and Learning Experience.

Since the end of 2003 a tri-state syndicate of government agencies from western NSW, Victoria and South Australia has been working on a strategy to manage this salinity hazard. This Research Bulletin draws on some of the findings to date, focusing on results of monitoring root zone salinity and deep drainage in sprinkler and drip-irrigated citrus orchards and vineyards.

This factsheet is the master list of the CVAP series published in mid-1999 and updated in May/June 2002. There are four factsheets in the general CVAP Program category (G). The remaining codes refer to the four CVAP objectives and include all new projects funded mid- 1999, together with some continuing and recently- completed projects from earlier phases of CVAP. The categories are as follows: G=General CVAP information C=Climate Forecasting and Impacts A=Adaptive Systems M=Marketing Climate Information IE=Industry and Extension