Talking Water - Tuesday 17 December, 2024

Talking Water is taking a short break

This our final edition of Talking Water for 2024. We will be returning on Tuesday 7 January 2025 to bring you all the latest company news and updates from Murray Irrigation. 

 
Thank you for your readership this year. We wish you all a safe and happy Christmas and New Year. 

As an additional measure, we have also procured the services of an Amphibious Harvester, which harvests floating, submerged and emergent aquatic weeds, to assist us to manage this weed growth quickly and efficiently in the short term.

Murray Irrigation will continue to monitor demand to prioritise these works in areas of high demand and keep affected customers updated.

Customers are urged to provide as much order notice as possible to assist with this planning.

To help minimise chances of interruptions to your orders from weeds or increased summer demand: 

• Please ensure you place your orders as soon as possible. To guarantee delivery, a four-day order notification is required. 
• This means, place your order four days before you want the outlet to start or increase. 
• If the water ordering system cannot satisfy your order request, the system will offer you the next available date your order can be satisfied. 
• If you are not happy with the future date the water ordering system offers you, please place an unsatisfied order (see our 'How to' section below). This will place you in the queue for a four-day start, at a restricted flow rate, or earlier if capacity becomes available. 
• Please update your order changes for extensions or increases as soon as possible. 

If you think you may be impacted by flow restrictions this season and wish to discuss further, please contact our Customer Experience Team on 1300 138 265.

Or for more information check out our fact sheet. 

How do I lodge an unsatisfied order?  

You will receive the below message when you enter your order – select 'Reject' to lodge an unsatisfied order. 

You will then receive the below message - select 'Continue'. 

This will place your order as an unsatisfied request and put you in the queue to receive your order as soon as capacity is available, or at a restricted flow in 4 days. 

More details are in our Water Ordering Guide. 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 

As we head into the Christmas and New Year period, on behalf of Murray Irrigation, we extend our warmest wishes to our shareholders and customers for a safe and joyous festive season. 
 
We wish you and your families a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We look forward to working with you in 2025. 

Nathan Holahan 
Acting CEO

Irrigation Innovation Farm Tour – 2025 

Murray Irrigation is excited to introduce a new pilot initiative in 2025, designed to foster collaboration, innovation and shared learning among irrigators in our footprint: the Irrigation Innovation Farm Tour. 
 
The purpose of the tour is to create a platform where like-minded irrigating farmers can network and share knowledge and insights from across the footprint, ask questions and expand their knowledge on farm layouts, innovation, infrastructure, water use and more. 
 
The inaugural tour will be uniquely shaped to the interest of the group attending and is planned to take place in mid February 2025. 
 
More information on this exciting new initiative, including dates and expression of interest (EOI) forms will be shared early in the new year via email and SMS. 
   
We look forward to working with irrigators across the footprint and developing, what we hope, to be a long-lasting educational initiative for Murray Irrigation customers. 

Community in Focus:
Deniliquin Mental Health Awareness Group

Murray Irrigation is pleased to share the next edition in our Community in Focus series, which showcases the stories behind each of our 2024 Community Sponsorship Program recipients.   

This latest article is about the new ‘landing page’ launched by the Deniliquin Mental Health Awareness Group (Deni MHAG) earlier this month specifically for Farmer Wellbeing. 

The landing page, and the broader ‘share the load’ community campaign, is designed to encourage farmers to “let’s talk about it”, and provides a ‘one stop’ place where information and links are available to signpost assistance and resources. 



You can read more about the inspiration behind the share the load campaign and the new landing page, as well as the great work Deni MHAG are doing to increase awareness and knowledge of mental illness and mental health and wellbeing by clicking on the button below. 

You can visit the new dedicated share the load landing page and all its resources here: https://www.denimentalhealth.org.au/sharetheload 

Information sharing tour – The Hon. Scott Barrett 

Murray Irrigation had the pleasure of hosting The Hon. Scott Barrett, Member of the NSW legislative Council to the footprint last week on an information sharing tour. 

The visit began with a short presentation providing information on the history of Murray Irrigation and the role the company plays in providing irrigation water for agriculture, water for the environment and in the maintenance and innovation of water delivery assets throughout the region. 

The presentation was followed by a trip around the area to see some of Murray Irrigation’s assets including Lawson Syphon, Edward River Escape and the Moulamein Channel Offtake. 



We thank Mr Barrett for taking the time to come to the area to gain further knowledge about agriculture and the irrigation industry. 

New Basin leadership as Sir Angus retires 

The Albanese Government has announced the appointment of new Murray–Darling Basin Authority Board Chair, Daryl Quinlivan AO, following the retirement of Air Chief Marshal Sir Angus Houston AK, AFC. 

Mr Quinlivan has extensive experience in public service, governance and water resource management, including as a former member of the Murray–Darling Basin Commission, Secretary of the former Department of Agriculture and NSW Agriculture Commissioner. His 4-year term starts on 23 December. 

Sir Angus will retire on 22 December. Joining as Chair in 2020, Sir Angus has spearheaded the next stage of sustainable water management in Australia’s most important river system. His listening tours across the Basin and inclusive approach united stakeholders and helped bring trust back to the Murray–Darling Basin Plan.

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