Welcome to the Irrigation Webinar Series recordings page Below you will find links to each recording as they become available. Webinar 18: 2025 Water Supply and Demand in the Southern Murray Darling Basin (April 2026) Webinar 16: New approach to delivery rights in Victoria: Place of take approvals framework Webinar [...]
In late 2022, winter-fill irrigation water was auctioned by Southern Rural Water (SRW) to landholders along the Tambo River. Each property that bought water triggered the requirement for irrigation development guidelines (IDGs). As part of the IDG process SRW, the West Gippsland Catchment Management Authority (WGCMA) and Agriculture Victoria worked [...]
1 July 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd9XZNDM0wU Key messages: Compared to historical records, the following has been observed: Higher temperatures Reductions in winter rainfall Some increases in summer rainfall In some catchments, a shift in the streamflow response to rainfall In the future we can expect: The winter rainfall reductions to [...]
9 June 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oI0HenJzg0s WATER ALLOCATION PROCESSES The connected southern Murray Darling Basin (sMDB) extends across northern Victoria, southern New South Wales, and parts of South Australia, and comprises different catchments, irrigation regions, water storages and waterways. Each state in the sMDB has their own unique suite of [...]
28 May 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8H-RvlSRUs Key messages: Findings from the ACCC report include: Farmer’s water assets make up about 40% of their farm asset base Water markets allow farmers to sell excess water, to secure extra water, and to free up capital for expansion or development Water markets provide [...]
30 April 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUFxfV5Xv1Y Key messages: Last summer’s La Nina reduced irrigation demand The MDBA active storage is at 45% (this time last year active storage was at 27%) Other storages are generally at or above average The Bureau of Meteorology climate forecast is currently neutral for the [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64rCAfBo0UU Key messages: The Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning (DELWP) have conducted a review of inter-valley trade between the Goulburn and Murray. Delivery risks on the Lower Murray are increasing for several reasons, including that total deliveries (irrigation, environmental, and other consumptive use) in the [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vGLYSTF37w Key messages: Water supply across the whole southern connected basin is a key driver of allocation price. Inflows will be the key to future prices. There will be years of high, low and in-between inflows. There is water available for all industries and prices are related to [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ88wnAUZJA Key Messages: January 28th 2021 The price of irrigation water in the southern Murray Darling Basin (sMDB) has varied considerably in recent years. This has been driven by variation in the supply of water and changing demand patterns across the sMDB. Commonwealth water recovery and changing land [...]
Determinations Every season, entitlement holders who hold high and low-reliability water shares receive a percentage of those shares. The percentage depends on seasonal conditions and the volume of water held in the storage that is available to distribute - this percentage of the shares is called a seasonal determination. Seasonal [...]
