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Enable best practice cotton enterprises to deliver sustainable ecosystems and reduced impacts on catchments by:

• Characterising river health and ecological responses to flow variability in two key floodplain catchments and assisting catchment bodies to develop science-based riparian health indicators 
• Benchmarking current groundwater conditions in cotton catchments and improving the reliability of aquifer recharge modelling by at least 10 per cent
• Establishing baselines for on-farm water quality and developing remediation processes with the capacity to deliver both farm and catchment benefits
• Developing best practice techniques and guidelines to enable industry and catchment bodies to better assess, manage and monitor biodiversity and ecosystem services in cotton catchments
• Developing a set of farm and catchment information resources and tools that are consistent with good science, best practice, practical adoption and catchment goals