General News
5 June, 2026
Water drops to lowest in decade
The 2025-2026 irrigation season saw the third lowest water deliveries across the Goulburn Murray Irrigation District in the past 10 years.
The 2025-2026 irrigation season saw the third lowest water deliveries across the Goulburn Murray Irrigation District in the past 10 years.
The season, which came to an end on May 15 2026, saw 79,000 orders processed, resulting in more than 850,000 megalitres of water delivered to private irrigators. The 10-year average is 1,007,000 megalitres.
Dry conditions has seen water levels across Goulburn Murray Water’s storages drop. Inflows to a number of storages have been well below average for two water years.
General manager water delivery services Warren Blyth said lower inflows into storages was contributing to a drop in irrigation demand.
“Our customers are continuing to face challenges due to dry and variable conditions” he said.
“Timely rainfall did arrive throughout the 2025-2026 season but not at the levels we need for substantial flows into storages.
“Some of our storages, in particular the ones in the Goulburn, Campaspe and Loddon systems, are at 40 per cent or lower.
“This combined with other factors such as lower allocations in the Goulburn system and temporary water prices being higher during the 2025-2026 season,” Mr Blyth said.
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