The purpose of the Gnangara Horticulture Water Use Efficiency Voucher Program is to assist eligible commercial horticultural businesses to obtain written expert advice to develop a plan to implement water use efficiency measures on their property. Assistance will be provided via a voucher that can be used to engage a professional irrigation consultant.

Local growers in the defined area can access vouchers to engage certified irrigation specialists to:

• audit their properties
• design efficient irrigation systems
• provide written advice on technologies, soil amendments and cropping strategies to improve water use efficiency within their enterprise
• develop soil amelioration plans and options to improve soil health.

Who is eligible to apply?

To be eligible to apply, you will need to demonstrate that:

• you own, share-farm or lease a property that you use for commercial horticulture production (lessee of property must provide landlord consent in writing)
• your commercial horticultural property is located in the eligible groundwater subareas (see map in Appendix 1 of the guidelines), and is subject to the 10 per cent reduction to groundwater abstraction from 2028 under the 2022 Gnangara groundwater allocation plan
• you conduct the majority of your primary production business in Western Australia
• you operate as a sole trader, partnership, trust or private company
• you hold a current Australian Business Number (ABN) and are registered for GST. 
• your business is a commercial primary production business (as defined by the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997).

• Phone: 0476 379 628
• Email: gnangaragrants@dpird.wa.gov.au