Emerging legal issues surrounding dryland salinity in Australia were explored during a special session of Australias National Dryland Salinity Program NDSP Salinity Stocktake conference being held in Bendigo Victoria this week.

16112000 Profitable crops that make the most efficient use of water will place farmers in a winwin situation in the fight against salinity.

Residents and land managers in parts of NSW have taken a frontline role in tackling emerging dryland salinity throughout the region using a combination of management options and new technology emerging from research and development projects.

Farmers in South Australias Coorong District are used to the threat of salinity.

One of Australias leading hydrogeologists has found that despite the well known threats posed by salinity in Australia very positive signs are already emerging from national research and development projects.

Leading professional services consulting firm Sinclair Knight Merz has won a prestigious Institution of Engineers Australia award for its research into engineering solutions for dryland salinity.

Research to predict how much aquatic biodiversity will be lost as a result of increasing dryland salinity is part of a new and ambitious wholeofcatchment research approach to the critical salinity problem in Australia.

14112000 Up to 1000 rural towns across Australia could be at risk from dryland salinity within 50 years new estimates from the National Land and Water Resources Audit NLWRA released today have found.

Better appreciation of just how much salinity our native vegetation can withstand should be the outcome of new research being funded by Australias National Dryland Salinity Program NDSP.

Technical legal and institutional issues will be debated at a national dryland salinity conference to be held at Latrobe University in Bendigo Victoria from 14 17 November 2000.

Dryland salinity well recognised as a rural problem is also causing major headaches for many Australian cities and towns.

A national policy discussion paper released today calls for major and urgent reform in Australias institutional arrangements governing land and water use and management.