Talking Water - Tuesday 31 October, 2023

This week's contents

Operations

• Water order notice requirements
• Water Delivery Performance
• Talking Water data to 31 October   

Business

• Charles Sturt University partnership
• Board announcement - Proposed shareholder resolutions
• Murray Irrigation AGM: Save the Date   
  

Industry

• Hort Innovation AGM
• Dairy industry environmental management guidelines consultation

Community

• Virtual Channel Fundraising Walk

Operational Update

Water order notice requirements

To guarantee the supply of water on the day you require it, four days' notice is required.
 
Why is a four-day notice period required?
 
It can take up to four days for water to travel from the Hume Dam to our offtake at Lake Mulwala. 
 
Murray Irrigation is required to place a four-day advance order with WaterNSW, every day of the year. The size of the advance order placed with WaterNSW is based on customer orders that have been lodged for delivery in four days. This volume is then released from Hume Dam to deliver through the Mulwala Canal to fill your order. 
 
 If you give less than four days’ notice, we endeavour to fill your order. However, as per our current Mode 3 Normal operation, this is subject to a range of operating parameters. These include available water in Lake Mulwala and, in some circumstances such as peak demand periods, your delivery may be delayed by up to four days. If localised restrictions are invoked, all new orders are placed on a four-day wait period.
 
Based on this, and the busy summer irrigation season, if you want to prevent interruption to your irrigation plans, please provide as much notice as possible for your water orders. 

Read more in our 2023-24 Season Operating Plan and in the Distribution Rules. 

Water Delivery Performance - 23/10/2023 to 29/10/2023

Talking Water data  31/10/2023

All the detailed data for Murray Irrigation allocations, delivery, channel flow and Water Exchange temporary trade data is available on our company web page below. 

To see the latest data for Murray system storages and rivers, visit the Murray-Darling Basin Authority's River data page. 

Additional resources 

MDBA weekly report
NSW Water allocation statements
Rainfall and evaporation
Barmah Choke trade balance

The information and data provided in Talking Water is for general reference purposes only. We take best endeavours to ensure accuracy. 

Business Update

Murray Irrigation CEO Ron McCalman with Charles Sturt Vice-Chancellor Professor Renée Leon. 

Charles Sturt University partnership

Murray Irrigation has entered into a partnership with Charles Sturt University's Gulbali Institute for Agriculture, Water and Environment.
 
Under the arrangement, we will be collaborating on a range of education, research and business initiatives across the environmental and agricultural sectors, combining industry expertise with world class research. 
 
Achieving positive outcomes and proactive solutions through the sharing of knowledge is important within our footprint and we’re excited to see the results of this partnership.

Find out more in the media release below. 

Board announcement - Proposed shareholder resolutions

Last Friday, 27 October, the Murray Irrigation Board released the following shareholder announcement in response to two proposed resolutions, submitted by a group of shareholders, for putting forward at the company's upcoming AGM. 



Murray Irrigation AGM: Save the Date

Murray Irrigation will be hosting our 2023 Annual General Meeting on Thursday 30 November.

We will be releasing a notice of meeting, including meeting agenda, resolutions and proxy forms, to shareholders next week. 
 
This year's AGM will be a hybrid meeting, which will enable shareholders to attend either in-person or virtually.
   
We look forward to sharing more AGM details shortly.   

Industry News

Hort Innovation AGM

The Hort Innovation Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held virtually and in-person at 12pm on Friday, 24 November at the Brisbane Airport Conference Centre.

Hort Innovation is the grower-owned research and development corporation for Australian horticulture.

This year, four candidates are in the running for three vacant Board positions. 



Dairy Development and Enivronmental planning workshops 

The NSW Department of Primary Industries is hosting a consultation workshop in Finley tomorrow, 1 November, to seek insight from Riverina dairy farmers and stakeholders regarding the 'Environmental management guidelines for the dairy industry' (2008), which are currently under review.
 
The workshop will be held at Finley Returned Soldiers Club from 9.45am to 12pm, and will be followed by lunch.

If you are unable to attend tomorrow's workshop, there will be an online consultation session on 14 November.