Land and water managers are facing at least two threatening processes to water regimes and water quality in Australia dryland salinity and uncontrolled plantation development.

Dryland salinity is just as much a threat to the urban environment as it is to the rural sector.

Australian farmers have always shown initiative when faced with new challenges Dryland salinity is one of the greatest challenges to confront our farmers but again they are rising to the occasion

Desalination can only be borderline at best as a solution to Australias water problems a national study has found

The future direction of investment in dryland salinity research and development is to be determined over the next eight months as part of a major evaluation of Australias National Dryland Salinity Program NDSP

Recent research has clearly spelled out the potential impacts of dryland salinity not only to farmland but to water resources the environment and infrastructure towns roads etc More importantly it has reinforced the need to manage the problem on a truly landscape scale.

A new Internetbased interactive tool is now available from Australias National Dryland Salinity Program NDSP to help land and water managers explore suitable engineering options in developing their salinity management plans.

Current and potential users of the Flowtube groundwater model will get opportunity for oneonone discussions about its use and possible improvement this month.

An ongoing study into the full costs of dryland salinity throughout the MurrayDarling Basin has found the cost of saline town water supplies to households commerce and industry are even higher than previously estimated.

Red meat producers across Australia are set to benefit from a 15 million Meat Livestock Australia MLA contribution to the National Dryland Salinity Program NDSP.

Roman soldiers were paid in salt giving us the modern word salary.

Federal Minister for Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry Warren Truss and Federal Minister for the Environment and Heritage Dr David Kemp today congratulated Western Australias Lake Toolibin Salinity Management System on winning the inaugural 30000 National Salinity Prize.

Representatives from South Australias leading financial and agribusiness institutions have participated in a landmark seminar to improve understanding of the threat posed by dryland salinity and advances in research and development for managing the problem.

A major study into Queenslands cropping lands conducted by the Queensland Department of Natural Resources and Mines.