Our Zones

The CRC for Irrigation Futures places significant importance of being regionally active and nationally significant. The Zonal structure provides the CRC’s regional focus.

The Zones are the doors and the windows to the CRC for Irrigation Futures. They represent a key mechanism for the CRC for Irrigation Futures to validate its research direction and importantly re-assess the importance and applicability of the mission. Over time the Zones will operate as the doorway for Zone specific research issues to be addressed within the CRC for Irrigation Futures.

The Zones also represent the window into the CRC for Irrigation Futures for industry and the community. They provide a linkage to the important extension and communication pathways relevant at an industry and community level for the distribution of CRC for Irrigation Futures products and services. Zone Leaders, collectively become the service broker of the CRC for Irrigation Futures and individually take on the role of extension/adoption coordinator.

The CRC has established four zones, three covering broad agro-climatic zones and an urban zone:

Southern
South Australia, Victoria, southern NSW

Summer
roughly central Qld to central NSW. Includes the major river valleys Paroo, Warrego, Moonie, Condamine-Culgoa, Macintyre, Gwydir, Namoi, Castlereagh, Macquarie, Lachlan, Barwon-Darling, Richmond, Clarence, Tweed

Tropical
Western Australia, Northern Territory and Queensland typically north of the Tropic of Capricorn; including the Bundaberg, Emerald, Proserpine, Burdekin, Mareeba-Dimbulah (Qld), Daly (NT), Kununurra and Carnarvon (WA) regions

Urban
Urban areas across Australia: capital cities and major regional towns.