Australian Bureau of Statistics 4618.0 - Water Use on Australian
Farms, 2006-07 Previous ISSUE Released at 11:30 AM (CANBERRA
TIME) 27/08/2008 |Page tools: Print Page Print All RSS Search
this Product| Note: 19/02/2009: Data in these tables supplement
that released in Water Use on Australian Farms 2006–07 on 27th
August 2008. The additional datacubes present selected data at
Natural Resource Management (NRM) region geographies. Data on
major pastures and crops irrigated, sources of agricultural
water by volume, irrigation methods by area irrigated, value of
irrigation equipment and infrastructure, and total irrigation
expenditure is presented for NRM regions. Total water use by
agricultural businesses declined in all states/territories
except for Tasmania and South Australia, where increases of
25.3% and 6.1% respectively were reported. The largest decrease
was reported in the New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory
region, where total water use by agricultural businesses
declined by 40.7% from 4,796 gig