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One Water Many Futures sessions will have a balance of research, practice and project updates across the themes of;
Water Service Provision
• Modernising off-farm delivery systems
• Water accounting
• Metering
• Managing environmental water
General
• Water cycle management
• Groundwater
• Policies and planning for uncertainty
• Environment - social - economic assessment
• Impact of climate change on irrigation
• Extension - it's the people, stupid
Urban
• Urban irrigation
• Alternative water sources
• Competing water demand in the peri-urban regions
On-farm
• Modernising on-farm delivery systems
• Increasing crop water productivity
• ET - estimating plant water use
• Solute signatures and salinity
• Reducing dam evaporation losses
Q and A
A lively and entertaining Q and A will be hosted by award winning journalist Ticky Fullerton.
The panel will consider what should irrigation policy, practise and research look like in 2020; following the $30 billion of private and public investment and a further decade of reform.
The panel will include:
Murray Smith Sandra Postel
Matthew Stott Richard Stirzaker
Bill Heffernan Mary Harwood
Plus a leading politician and policy developer
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