Chasing down the salt in Australia

Authors: D.L. Dent & R.O. Braaten

The threat of dryland salinity in Australia is huge but elusive. It has proved difficult to build up a coherent picture of the spread of salinity, let alone devise workable solutions, from extrapolation of widely spaced measurements in boreholes and major rivers. It has seemed to be too big to handle, too diffuse to nail down, and valiant efforts at community level have had little or no impact.

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