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Overseeing vast expanses of water and land
has its own set of challenges, as Murrumbidgee
Irrigation’s Brett Jones has found out.WORDS ADRIAN FLORES • IMAGES BRETT NASEBYB
y his own admission, Brett Jones is “not a city person”.
The Novocastrian spent the first 30 years of his life in
New South Wales’ Hunter Region before heading to
Port Hedland in Western Australia for six years, then to
Cooma, New South Wales, for 14 years working on the
Snowy Hydro Scheme. Now the CEO of Murrumbidgee
Irrigation, he has spent the past two years in the town of Griffith in the
Riverina region of New South Wales. “I was hooked by the area,” Brett
admits. “I like being in the country more than the city; it’s where you can
make a big difference to communities.”
It is fitting then that the country guy is tasked with taking charge
of precisely that: all 660,000 hectares of supply network that constitute
the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area.INSPIRE | Interview