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Key Message 2 - We all Live and Interact in Catchments
Human Impacts on Catchments
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Topic of Study - Salinity
 
  • What are the issues that have led to salinity problems across the county?
  • How have Irrigation practices compounded salinity problems?
  • How does native vegetation clearance contribute to salinity problems?
  
Type
Description
Resources Covering the Topic

Easy

 - Landcare Field Guide.
- Extensive information on land degradation.
- Comprehensive, informative and well written.
  Includes:
  • soil erosion,
  • salinity,
  • deterioration of soil structure,
  • soil fertility decline,
  • pest plant and animals,
  • tree and bushland decline.
- Natural Advantage: A Blueprint for
  Sustainable Australia.
- Comprehensive overview of sustainable
  development, including salinity issues.
- Facts about salinity.
Water Resources in South Australia: Regional Net
http://www.regional.net.au/water/infor/salinity/
default.htm
- Salinity - Our Silent Disaster.
- Describes salinity problem facing Australia.
  Comprehensive and informative overview of
  the main issues.
- What is Salinity?
- Brief summary of issues.
- Salinity.
- Concise explanation of the issues with
  diagram.
Qld Department of Natural Resources and Mines
http://www.nrm.qld.gov.au/land/management/
salinity.html
- Salinity.
- Rising salt destroying native bush and
  wetlands.

More Comprehensive

- Land degradation including salinity in the
  Murray-Darling Basin.

Murray-Darling Basin Commission
http://www.mdbc.gov.au/education/encyclopedia/
land_degradation.htm

- Salinity and groundwater in South Australia.
- PDF download - a succinct summary of the
  main issues (maps and statistics included).

SA Government Department of Water Resources
http://www.dwr.sa.gov.au/water/publications/pdfs/
fs6_salinity_of_groundwater.pdf

- Search the website for information on a
  range of environmental issues, including dry
  land salinity. You can select South Australia
  to locate statistics on a range of issues.

Australian Natural Resource Atlas
http://audit.ea.gov.au/ANRA/land/land_frame.cfm?
region_type=AUS&region_code=AUS&
info=soil_erosion

- Salinity - Our Silent Disaster.
- Describes the salinity problem facing
  Australia – a comprehensive and informative
  overview of the main issues.

ABC
http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/salinity/
default.htm#Salinity

- Land degradation.
- Comprehensively covers a wide variety of
  issues.

NSW EPA
http://www.epa.nsw.gov.au/soe/soe2000/bl/
bl_1.htm#bl_1_h008

- Land degradation and salinity.

ABC – Silent Flood
http://www.abc.net.au/learn/silentflood/edu_ep2.htm

http://www.abs.gov.au/Ausstats/abs@.nsf/
94713ad445ff1425ca25682000192af2/faeb6096cda4
d9adca256bdc001223ff!OpenDocument

Environment Australia
http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/biodiversity/pdfs/
salinity_biodiversity.pdf

- Land degradation in Victoria.
- Comprehensive website with good pictures
  and explanations of erosion, acidification,
  salinity and groundwater.

VIC Government Natural Resources and Environment
http://www.nre.vic.gov.au/web/root/Domino/
vro/vrosite.nsf/pages/lwm_land_deg
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