Irrigated agriculture produces around half of the profit generated from agriculture in Australia, a vital contribution to national and regional development.

The National Program for Sustainable Irrigation provides research and innovation to improve the environmental and productive performance of irrigation in Australia.

The Program funds and manages research projects across Australia, working at the property level with farmers, at catchment level with policy makers and planners, and at scales that cross state and territory borders.

Partners

NPSI is a collaboration between fourteen funding partners. Investment Partners include irrigator groups, water authorities, commodity groups, state government agencies, Research and Development Corporations, Cooperative Research Centres, and the Australian government:

• Land & Water Australia  (managing partner)
• Australian Government Department of Environment, Water, Heritage & the Arts
• Sunwater, Queensland
• Horticulture Australia Limited
• Goulburn-Murray Water, Victoria
• Cotton Research and Development Corporation
• Harvey Water, Western Australia
• Lower Murray Water Authority, Victoria
• Ord Irrigation Cooperative, Western Australia
• Gascoyne Water Cooperative, Western Australia
• Grains Research & Development Corporation
• Sugar Research & Development Corporation
• South Australian Research and Development Institute
• Western Australia Department of Water

Investing in NPSI Phase 2

Go to the about investing in NPSI  page for more information, or becoming an associate partner, please contact Guy Roth, the Program Coordinator.

More Information

For more information on the National Program for Sustainable Irrigation, contact Guy Roth, the Program Coordinator, Email: guy.roth@lwa.gov.au.

Find out more about our research projects.

Go to the  knowledge base  page for completed irrigation research.