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Salinity Management

Salting on Dryland Farms in North-western Victoria | Salinity Indicator Plants | Salinity Provinces in the Mallee CMA

  • Information on Mallee Dryland Salinity Management Plan - Technical Investigations - on the Mallee Catchment Management Authority (external link) 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).
Related Links

Murray-Darling Basin Salinity Management Strategy. Information about the 15 year Basin Salinity Management Strategy (2001-2015) (external link) on the Murray Darling Basin Commission website. 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).

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 (external link) on the Australian Academy of Sciences website.


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 Australian Government's Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry website provides a range of salinity information (external link) (including major programs and initiatives, research and development, salinity advice and salinity monitoring and assessment) as well as information about the National Dryland Salinity Program (external link) (including salinity mapping methods, Groundwater Flow Systems, desalinisation technologies and the Australian Dryland Salinity Assessment 2000).

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