Sustainable irrigation: How did irrigated agriculture in Australia's Murray–Darling Basin adapt in the Millennium Drought?

Mac Kirby, Rosalind Bark, Jeff Connor, M. Ejaz Qureshi and Scott Keyworth

Agricultural Water Management, 2014, vol. 145, issue C, 154-162

Abstract: The recent drought in south-eastern Australia saw the lowest inflows on record in the Murray–Darling Basin in 2006. As reservoirs were drawn down water availability for irrigation was cut. In 2007–2008 and 2008–2009, irrigators received about one third of their pre-drought allocations. Understanding how the irrigation sector adapted to less water will help planning for the next drought and a future in which irrigation water use will be reduced permanently in the basin.

Keywords: Irrigation; Drought; Adaptation; Water trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2014.02.013

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