Driven by the need to manage the impact of climate change, drought, water industry restructuring, market globalisation, environmental externalities of irrigated farming, urbanisation of the Victoria population and diminishing economic returns of the farming community in general and dairy farmers in particular, Aqwise and Sustainable Ventures, joined forces with the Department of Primary Industries, Netafim and Ecotech group to develop an innovative modular multi water-use system;

The collaboration will create synergies and utilise knoweledge, skills, expertise and markets on a partnership (risk sharing) basis between the Victorian and Israeli partners.

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The SWS system has been developed over many years of research at the Department of primary industries (DPI) with significant resouces having been invested in the range of $4m. ... more

SV provides Australian farmers with an end to end solution - from initial farm analysis, through design, training and finance until marketing and ongoing technical support. ... more

The SWS is an innovative commercially scalable turnkey farming system that is: „X Efficient water management and reuse for dairy farmers „X Uses recycled water from farming activity „X Integrates with farmersˇ¦ core activity „X Modular components applicable for Aquaculture, Hydroponics and other related activities „X Vertically integrated: provides support for production, sales and marketing. ... more