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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Determine regulatory requirements for water licences and/or access accounts
   • Confirm water sources available to the property to be irrigated and identify the authorities that manage and/or regulate water sources and delivery infrastructure
   • Identify water system to be used and associated regulations
   • Identify water licences and/or water account types that may be used to access and extract water for irrigation for the property
   • Identify regulations, conditions and/or other requirements related to holding and operating a water licence and/or a water account for the property
   • Identify, as a private diverter, water entitlements and allocations, water licence and/or water types accessible, infrastructure, delivery risks and yearly costs required to access water
   • Identify, as an irrigator in an irrigation network, water licence and/ or water types accessible, temporary and/ or annual water, delivery risks and yearly costs required to access water
2. Implement water deliveries as a private diverter
   • Confirm private diverter's water licence and access conditions related to water share (allocation), allocation account, reporting requirements, tradeable water, potentialcarryover, and where and/or how the water will be used
   • Check pump, water meter and other infrastructure are compliant with regulatory requirements and ready for operation
   • Monitor weather conditions and forecasts
   • Confirm delivery times and prepare to extract water during time window
   • Extract water within licence conditions
   • Check metering, complete reporting if required, and track overall extraction against licence conditions
   • Monitor water account balance and seasonal allocation announcements and ensure compliance with extraction limits
   • Protect pumps if required
3. Implement water deliveries as part of an irrigation network
   • Confirm water extraction conditions, related to water share (entitlement and/or allocation), allocation account, reporting requirements, allowable tradeable water and potentialcarryover, and where and/or how the water will be used3.2 Confirm there is sufficient water in account to place order, and source additional water if required
   • Monitor weather conditions and forecasts
   • Monitor lead times and place order for water
   • Check meter and other water receival infrastructure is ready for operation
   • Confirm delivery times and prepare to extract water during time window
   • Extract water according to irrigation network conditions
   • Check metering, complete reporting if required and track overall extraction against account conditions
   • Confirm and complete ongoing reporting requirements
4. Conduct end of season review and commence preparation for next season
   • Compare actual water delivered to water ordered
   • Complete water delivery process confirming shut off and final automated procedures
   • Identify water usage trends for current season
   • Conduct equipment and infrastructure checks and maintenance
   • Complete final regulatory reporting as required
   • Complete end of year water balance, including anycarryover

Performance Evidence

An individual demonstrating competency must satisfy all of the elements and performance criteria in this unit.

There must be evidence that the individual has undertaken the processes required to order and take delivery of at least three separate parcels of water for a specific property, either as private diverter or as part of an irrigation network. In doing so, the individual must have:

confirmed the licence and/or water account conditions, including access conditions and penalties that may apply

identified total water available under the licence and/or account

confirmed and completed internal and external reporting requirements

completed an end of year water balance and determined carryover available

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Knowledge Evidence

An individual must be able to demonstrate the knowledge required to perform the tasks outlined in the elements and performance criteria of this unit. This includes knowledge of:

key features of regulations and conditions that apply to irrigation water extracted and used including:

water access licence

water use approval

works approval

delivery/extraction share

key features of water markets and how they function, including:

permanent or entitlement trade

temporary or allocation trade

key market participants including irrigators, environmental water holders and regulators

conditions on market participants

functions and compliance powers of federal/state/territory and regional water authorities or private infrastructure operators that apply to water extracted and used

cost and benefits of accessing and extracting irrigation water as a private diverter

costs and benefits of accessing and extracting irrigation water as an account holder with an irrigation network

visual and operational checks of water meters, pumps and water delivery infrastructure

functions and operations of appropriate water registers that apply to the jurisdiction being irrigated

water use licences and water trade restrictions that apply to water extracted and used

key features of water entitlements and water allocations, including seasonal variations

trade restrictions related to water licence and/or water account, including carryover water and inter-valley trade cap requirements

types and classes of water available in local water market, and their access conditions

risks associated with water orders and delivery

lead time under a range of water availability and deliverability scenarios

water products available in local water market

key considerations when monitoring weather and weather forecasts

sources of information on allocation, allocation announcements and market opportunities

key end of season dates, including dates for water delivery, extraction, carryover, and annual water trading

end of year water balance, including any carryover.

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