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ARC Discovery Grant for 2009 - 2011

CAGS members, Dr John Pisaniello and Professor Roger Burritt, are awarded $145,000 for a three year ARC Discovery Grant for 2009 - 2011 to study the management of on-farm water storage for sustainable and safe catchments

DP0987825 Dr JD Pisaniello; Prof RL Burritt

Approved How to manage on farm surface water storage for sustainable and safe catchments.
Project Title
2009 : $ 40,000
2010 : $ 70,000
2011 : $ 35,000
Primary RFCD 3602 POLICY AND ADMINISTRATION

Administering Organisation University of South Australia

Project Summary
Unsafe on farm storage of runoff is a potential but silent problem ready to strike downstream communities.
Unfair storage already occurs at the expense of farmers, communities and environment. Stakeholders will gain understanding of these two inter related problems and the factors that drive them.

The national benefit will be empirical evidence and policy guidance about the drivers of on farm dam storage which ensures fairness and safety in surface water sharing systems by

(1)providing certainty of water entitlements and encouraging farming investment in safe dams,

(2)minimising hardship to farmers and communities not benefiting from their full entitlement and to those that suffer from dam failures, and

(3)maximising environment's share.

Vietnamese Delegate Visit - 20th July 2009

• Delegates from three Vietnamese Agencies, Ministry of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy for Water Resources, and the Institute for Water and Environment, visited CAGS on 20 July 2009.
• This visit was the result of interest shown by the Vietnamese delegates in Dr John Pisaniello’s and Prof Roger Burritt’s current ARC Discovery Project: “How to manage on-farm surface water storage for sustainable and safe catchments”.
• Dr John Pisaniello, with the kind assistance of Mr Arthur Spassis and Ms Tuyet Dam, took the Vietnamese delegates on a half-day tour in the Adelaide Hills, including an on-tour presentation by John, to articulate and visually demonstrate the issues being addressed by the ARC Discovery Project, and also discuss potential common threads with Vietnam.
• Further details and pictures of the visit are available here.

 

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