Salinity, waterlogging and nutrient runoff are major concerns for the irrigation sector of the farming industry in the Murray-Darling Basin. These three problems have partly resulted from the inefficient use of on-farm water resources. This report summarises investigations aimed at tackling these issues by designing a system to improve the on-farm use of irrigation water. The project focused on dairy farms in northern Victoria which use border check flood irrigation to irrigate perennial and annual pastures. Dairy farms were targeted because they are a major consumer of irrigation water and make little use of modern irrigation management techniques.