Salinity Management
Salting on Dryland Farms in North-western Victoria | Salinity Indicator Plants
- Information on the Mallee Dryland Salinity Management Plan - on the Mallee Catchment Management Authority website (external link).
- Information on Mallee Dryland Salinity Management Plan - Technical Investigations - on the Mallee Catchment Management Authority website. This includes a series of associated reports on hydrogeological, salinity and groundwater studies (from 1994 - 2002).
- Information on the Nyah to South Australian Border Salinity Management Plan - on the Mallee Catchment Management Authority website.
- Information on Nyah to South Australian Border Salinity Management Plan - Technical Investigations - on the Mallee Catchment Management Authority website. This includes a series of associated reports on hydrogeological, drainage, salinity and groundwater studies (from 1993 - 2002).
- Information on the Nyah Irrigation District Salinity Management Plan - on the Mallee Catchment Management Authority website.
- Information on the Sunraysia Salinity Management Plan - on the Mallee Catchment Management Authority website.
- Information on Sunraysia Salinity Management Plan - Technical Investigations - on the Mallee Catchment Management Authority website. This includes a series of associated reports on hydrogeological, drainage, salinity and groundwater studies (from 1993 to 2002).
| Murray-Darling Basin Salinity Management Strategy. Information about the 15 year Basin Salinity Management Strategy (2001-2015) on the Murray Darling Basin Commission website (external link). Includes downloadable documents. |
| Murray-Darling Basin Salinity Audit (external link). Provides detailed predictions for all major river valleys in the Murray-Darling Basin for the next 20, 50 and 100 years. |
| Effectiveness of Current Farming Systems in the Control of Dryland Salinity. (external link) A downloadable CSIRO publication on the Murray Darling Basin Commission website. To view the information PDF requires the use of a PDF reader. This can be installed for free from the Adobe website (external link). |
| Victorian Dryland Salinity in Context. (external link) Information in the Australian Natural Resource Atlas. |
| Australia's Dryland Salinity Assessment 2000 (external link). Information on extent, impacts, processes, monitoring and management options related to dryland salinity in Australia. Completed as part of the National Land and Water Resources Audit. |
| The CRC for Plant-Based Management of Dryland Salinity (external link) is a national research organisation that will provide new plant-based land use systems that lessen the economic, environmental and social impacts of dryland salinity and thereby help to sustain rural communities. This will be achieved through an improved understanding of the way natural and agricultural ecosystems work. |
| The Australian and New Zealand Environment and Conservation Council (ANZECC) established a Task Force to investigate the current state of knowledge and provide a basis for incorporating biodiversity conservation aims into salinity management plans. A report entitled Implications of Salinity for Biodiversity Conservation and Management (external link) was published. This report aims to raise awareness and demonstrate how, if appropriately designed, actions to mitigate salinity can at the same time contribute to biodiversity conservation outcomes. |
| The National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality (NAP) (external link) is a major commitment for applying regional solutions to salinity and water quality problems. The aim is for all levels of government, community groups, individual land manager and local businesses to work together in tackling salinity and improving water quality. Around Australia, 21 priority regions affected by salinity and water quality problems are being targeted. Part of the emphasis of the National Action Plan is on mapping salinity in the landscape. The resulting maps will help land managers develop more effective strategies for dealing with salinity based on better knowledge of how salt spreads through the landscape. |
| The National Dryland Salinity Program (NDSP) (external link) is a lead knowledge broker of research, development and extension efforts to combat the risk of dryland salinity in Australia. The NDSP website provides information on: airborne geophysics, salinity tools, engineering options, cost of salinity and catchment classification. The website also includes a Salinity Information Package (external link) which contains over 40 information sheets which provide a step-by-step framework to understand the complex relationships between salinity, socio-economics, land systems and management options. |
| The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Australia website provides a range of documents related to Salinity Risk Management (external link) in Australia (including: the salinity problem; integrated salt risk characterisation and salinity risk management). |
| Information about salinity on the Australian Academy of Sciences website (external link). |
| The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Science and Innovation tabled its report on June 21st 2004 - entitled Science overcoming salinity: Coordinating and extending the science to address the nation's salinity problem (external link). A copy of the entire report is available for download on the Parliament of Australia House of Representatives website. |
| The Saltland Pastures Association website (external link) provides information related to making saltland productive. |
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This document was last reviewed on 04/06/2009