Delivering Sustainability through Risk Management

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This report summarise the outputs and key lessons from National Program for Sustainable Irrigation (NPSI) funded project UMO45 Delivering Sustainability through Risk Management, which was designed to achieve an improved level of adoption of ecological risk assessment and risk management methods in the Australian irrigation industry and in regulatory agencies. Adoption of risk-based approaches is considered to be vital if the industry is to achieve its goal of long-term sustainability.

The project consisted of two activities:

• a series of regional awareness workshops aimed at explaining what is involved in ecological risk assessment and how risk management approaches might assist the irrigation industry in achieving the ultimate aim of long-term sustainability, and
• two case study partnership projects involving the irrigation industry and appropriate State irrigation regulators, aimed at developing capacity within the individual organizations to use risk-based procedures.