water between consumptive uses and the environment, with many investments centred on modernisation of inefficient irrigation … within a cost-benefit framework to reconfigure agricultural land use in an irrigation district to achieve a 20% reduction in … water for irrigation could result in the loss of AUS$68.7m in economic returns to agriculture which may be only marginally …

Debate about irrigation development of water resources in northern Australia has been hampered by a lack of … scenario, southern Australia could hypothetically support an area of irrigation about 60% greater than that of northern … of Australia’s hypothetical area of irrigation that could be located in northern Australia. These results suggest that …