Land Salinity: status of information for reporting against indicators

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This booklet summarises the current capacity to report on land salinity indicators pertaining to the land salinity “matter for target” agreed under the National Natural Resource Management Monitoring and Evaluation Framework (the National M&E Framework).

The four indicators are:
depth to groundwater (indicator 1)
groundwater salinity (indicator 2)
baseflow salinity (indicator 3)
location, size and intensity of salt-affected areas (indicator 4).

The National Land & Water Resources Audit, in collaboration with the Bureau of Rural Sciences and all states, conducted trials in each state to examine the applicability and scalability of the land salinity indicators (BRS 2007). The trials confirmed that the land salinity indicators, when combined with the appropriate contextual information, could be used to identify areas at risk from, or currently experiencing, degradation due to the effects of groundwater-induced land salinity.

This booklet is part of a series that describes the status of data and information relevant to national indicators agreed under the National Natural Resources Management Monitoring and Evaluation Framework.

It specifically reports on the status of information relating to indicators of land salinity.