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Salinity Investment Framework

The Salinity Investment Framework is a new process that will help identify priorities and then guide investment to those projects with the best chance of protecting assets of high public value. Assets include productive land, water, biodiversity (native plants and animals) and rural infrastructure.

Previous investment in salinity management has been criticised for spreading funding too thinly to have any real impact. Advances in our knowledge of salinity have shown that larger levels of intervention are required to halt the impacts of salinity. For instance, in some catchments, up to 80% of the cleared land would need to be revegetated to have any impact and reduce salinity. Armed with such information, the State Salinity Council felt that more focused intervention was required. The Salinity Investment Framework was developed to guide this intervention.
 
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Adobe Portable Document Format SLUI 32 Salinity Investment Framework interim report - Phase I
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Publish Date: 01-OCT-2003 10:42 AM
Department of Environment 2003, Salinity Investment Framework interim report - Phase I, 2003, Department of Environment, Salinity and Land Use Impacts Series No. SLUI 32  
 
Adobe Portable Document Format SLUI 38 Stream salinity status and trends in south-west Western Australia
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Publish Date: 04-OCT-2005 10:43 AM
This is the first overview of stream salinity across the south-west of Western Australia since 1988. More than half of the rivers analysed in this study are now marginal in quality, brackish or saline, and only 44% of the south-west rivers are still fresh.  
 
Adobe Portable Document Format Salinity Investment Framework Phase II - SLUI 34
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Publish Date: 21-DEC-2006 03:44 PM
A Senior Officers Group for Natural Resource Management report to help identify salinity investment and funding targets. The framework integrates scientific, economic and social information to address salinity in a cost effective way, consistent with an agreed set of principles.