Commissioned in November 1994, it was funded equally by the Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC) and Sainty and Associates with a budget of $47 000 and the following work was undertaken: 1. Azolla evaporation study (University of Western Sydney). 2. Floating ring evaporation study (RMIT, Melbourne). 3. Evaporation mitigation from on-farm water storages (CSIRO Centre for Environmental Mechanics). 4. Study tour of six cotton farms (CSIRO Division of Water Resources, Sainty and Associates).