RM2050 Foundations and Options Paper Stakeholder Survey

  • RM2050 Foundations and Options Paper Stakeholder Survey

  • Lower Murray Water is developing the Rural Masterplan 2050 (RM2050) to guide future irrigation services.


    We’ve released a Phase One paper for consultation, outlining current options for rural districts and encourage you to read the document and provide feedback.


    Your feedback is vital—this short survey lets you share your views and help shape future decisions.


    If you would prefer to provide a written submission, please email our consultants Ricardo at: RM2050@ricardo.com

  • Section 1: Key Trends and Drivers

  • Q1. Your local knowledge is important in shaping the final RM2050 document. Have we accurately described the key trends and drivers affecting LMW's rural customers?*
  • 0/250
  • Q3. How would you describe how these trends have affected your farming business?*

  • Section 2: Strategic Issues and Priorities

  • The RM2050 Foundations and Options Paper identifies these 5 strategic regional issues.

    1. Supporting customers to adapt to future scenarios

    2. Managing stranded assets in urbanised and urbanising areas

    3. Balancing supply capacity and demand to meet customer needs

    4. Renewing irrigation and drainage assets

    5. Balancing the level of investment required with the costs recovered from customers

  • Q5. Do you agree with these 5 strategic issues?*
  • 0/250

  • Several actions have been identified assist with long-term planning and management of each of the strategic issues identified above. To assist us pease select your preferred option for each strategic issue below.

  • Issue 1: Supporting customers to adapt to future scenarios

  • Q7. To what extent should LMW support customers to adapt to future scenarios?

  • Issue 2: Managing stranded assets in urbanised and urbanising areas

  • Q8. How should LMW manage stranded assets and associate risk in urbanised areas?

  • Issue 3: Balancing supply capacity and demand to meet customer needs

    This issue has two key parts:

    1. Understanding and managing irrigation and drainage assets that are under-utilised, and
    2. Understanding and managing those parts of the networks where peak demand for water is greater than the network capacity.
  • Q9i. For underutilised assets, how should LMW better balance supply and demand to get the right volumes of water to customers where and when they need it, and rationalise assets where there is no longer demand?
  • Q9ii. For the issue of peak demand, how should LMW better balance supply and demand to get the right volumes of water to customers where and when they need it, and rationalise assets where there is no longer demand?

  • Issue 4: Renewing irrigation and drainage assets

  • Q10. Where, when, and how should LMW renew or upgrade ageing irrigation and drainage infrastructure where irrigation demand is expected to continue?

  • Issue 5: Balancing the level of investment required with the costs recovered from customers

  • Q11. How should LMW support ongoing sustainability of the business by aligning efficient costs of service provision with affordable prices and funding options?
  • 0/250

  • Section 3: Additional Considerations

  • 0/400

  • Section 4: Demographic Information

  • Q14. What is your primary irrigation district?*
  • Q15. What type of crops do you primarily grow? (select all that apply)*
  • Q16. What is your role?*
  • Q17. How many years have you been involved in irrigation farming?*
  • Q18. What is your preferred method of receiving updates from LMW?*

  • Privacy and the collection of personal information

    Lower Murray Water (LMW) is committed to protecting personal information provided by you in accordance with the principles of Victorian privacy legislation. The information you provide will be used for the purpose of developing the Rural Masterplan 2050 and its associated customer communications. The personal information being collected will be made available to our employees/contractors/advisors/agents (including Ricardo) to allow services to be provided to you. You may request access to, or correction of, documents that contain your personal information, which is in our possession. For information on how to make a request for access or correction, please contact us via privacy@lmw.vic.gov.au. In some cases, requests for access or correction will be handled in accordance with the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Vic).

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