"This isn't to hurt our farming industry, this is to ensure we support them in a way forward that is focused on long-term sustainable strategy when it comes to water," Myers said in the legislature Tuesday. "Our next step will be to create a sustainable irrigation strategy, as the leader of the Opposition suggested last Friday." Myers said the new rules will remain in effect until June 16 when the Water Act takes effect. Under the act, the moratorium on new high-capacity irrigation wells remains in place, and low-capacity wells that feed into holding ponds will have new rules. 'Pleasantly surprised'