<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>47</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ashley, MRC</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bubb, AJ</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">James, AR</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">James, CH</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vincent, A</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">WaterSmart Pastoral ProductionTM – A demonstration and evaluation of innovative stock water delivery and management technologies in desert Australia</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Australian Rangelands Conference</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">arid rangelands</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">cost savings</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">evaporation control</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">solar pumps</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">telemetry</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">28 September – 2</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Charters Towers, Qld, Australia</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Desert Knowledge Cooperative Research Centre WaterSmart Pastoral ProductionTM Project was established in 2005 with the aims of (i) encouraging pastoralists to understand how optimise the benefit of rainfall; (ii)  assist them to understand the mechanics of and make informed decisions about technologies for water pumping, reticulation and remote management and control of water systems; and (iii) promote knowledge of water-point placement in relation tactical grazing, environmental sensitivity and biodiversity. This presentation focuses on the second of these objectives.The project team consulted with pastoral producers across desert Australia to identify a variety of water management technologies to be evaluated within the on-property demonstration sites. These included a range of commercially available telemetry systems, evaporation control devices, and solar pumping technologies. Four demonstration sites were established on pastoral properties in South Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland. The properties represent a range of grazing scales, infrastructure types, environmental conditions and different capacities to invest in new water management technologies.With the project team, pastoral producers have recorded the implementation and operating costs of the water management technologies. These include changes in their business operation and costs, changes to their lifestyles, and the ease-of-use and reliability of the new technologies. The results of the project have been extended to a wider audience of pastoralists through field days, media articles, the WaterSmart website (http://www.desertknowledgecrc.com.au /watersmart.html) and to come a WaterSmartTM Pastoral Production handbook.</style></abstract><custom2><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">DKCRC-0287</style></custom2><custom5><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">SA, NT</style></custom5></record></records></xml>