NVIRP will deliver the project against some significant goals; goals that will keep Victoria at the leading edge of productive and sustainable resource management. To achieve this NVIRP has committed to a number of core objectives:
| to cost effectively spend $1 billion on irrigation water supply modernisation by June 2013 |
| undertake the project in consultation with all water users |
| improve on-farm water use efficiency and farm viability to support regional economic development opportunities and increase irrigation related productivity |
| develop an irrigation water supply environment that will retain water entitlements and attract new customers, more irrigation water and “green field” development to the region |
| improve the water delivery efficiency across the Goulburn Murray Irrigation District (GMID) in Long Term Cap Equivalent terms and in so doing, deliver a long-term average estimate of 225GL of water savings by 2012. These savings will be shared equally between the environment, irrigators and Melbourne |
| deliver an automated backbone for the water distribution system within the GMID |
| complete the renewal and rationalisation of all supply points on the backbone by December 2012 with the renewal of 25 per cent of delivery share to the backbone through the participation of willing customers, through the Connections Program |
| upgrade metering (including real time measurement) on up to half of the January 2008 supply points, by December 2012. |