An area of farmland dependent on a large-scale scheme to deliver a periodic supply of water.
more dairies are moving to reliable irrigation areas
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Today, I'm in the Murrimbidgee Irrigation Area, which is by far the largest recipient of the Murray-Darling Basin water.
There are large irrigation areas that must have been put in place in the 1970s.
The modelling that's been done, certainly in the dry land areas in the irrigation areas, show that the potential for reversing the damage now is very modest.
We travelled north across the border to irrigation areas up there.
They cover a considerable part of the irrigation area.
There's a need for buffer zones against spray drift, and control of erosion and flooding on lands above the irrigation areas.
The area includes portions of the major irrigation areas of Sunraysia and Riverina.
It was established as an irrigation area which probably got its full quota of water allocations at the time.
This feature is linked to the original development of these irrigation areas, with small-holder fruit blocks for soldier settlers and later new immigrants.
There are increasing anxieties in the irrigation area about water security, and tensions about ownership and rights to collective resources.