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“Collaboration and innovation for irrigation”

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RECOMMENDATIONS FROM WATER TECHNOLOGY CLUSTER Industry Audit Strategic Report:

1. Cluster Memorandum of Understanding (MOU):
   That a Memorandum of Understanding be developed and agreed between all Water Technology Cluster members/ representatives to help move towards a more coordinated delivery of water efficiency outcomes, particularly at the on-farm delivery level. This will need to consider issues including agreed operating processes, roles and responsibilities. It will include recognition of need for a ‘place in the sun’ for all relevant organisations delivering services, and an understanding of the issues with the competition model process and expecting the ‘market’ to sort things out.
    
2. Service Gap:
   That work is continued to define and understand the service gap and its issues, and how it can be bridged including funding arrangements.
    
3. Cost –share for key technology adoption, knowledge exchange and management decision support
   That in order to accelerate and support change a thorough and well planned process be used to develop appropriate cost-share processes for modernisation, particularly at the on-farm level, given the economic and climatic issues affecting change and the challenging and dynamic business operating environment.
    
4. Recognition that there is no technology ‘quick-fix’
   That it be recognized more widely that there is no technology ‘quick-fix’ at the on-farm level, but that a coordinated and sophisticated approach is needed where a range of issues and parameters are taken into account on a case by case basis for change management at the farm level.
    
5. Capacity for change:
   That the issues around capacity for change for better on-farm water efficiency needs to be better understood at both the service provider and on-farm dimensions, and that the service gap work proposed is supported.
    
6. Cluster Structure:
   That the Water Technology Cluster examines options and chooses a business structure, for example Incorporation, to support their ability to coordinate and enhance their influence over the direction of irrigation development and the collaborative approach.
    
7. Roles and responsibilities:
   That the roles and responsibilities of the public organisations be clarified, and where necessary re-negotiated, in order to help the water technology sector contribute more effectively to collaboratively move forward to capture water efficiency gains for the region.