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Land use planning and thinking strategically can play an important role in minimising the economic, environmental and social impacts of the interactions between development and...

Concentrated salts can have an impact on the durability of some building materials.

Managing dryland salinity successfully requires treatment of both the causes and the symptoms.Treatment of the symptoms of salinity in a local area requires a targeted and site...

Studying the distribution and concentration of salt in soil across a saline outbreak site helps determine limitations affecting management.

Learning to identify and assess the extent of dryland salinity is important for the management of affected areas. Information collected through this process may be used to...

It is possible to gain a much better understanding of the dryland salinity process by examining the individual factors that contribute to it. Through understanding each...

Information on salinity hazard is valuable for the management of existing and future buildings and infrastructure. It helps to ensure costly problems are avoided and, in areas...

Concentrations of salt and certain kinds of salt can affect plant growth, soil chemistry and structure as well as the lifespan of materials such as bitumen, concrete, masonry...

Care must be taken when attempting to diagnose urban salinity from any one symptom as there may be other explanations other than urban salinity. This pamphlet has attempted to...

Dissolved salts may crystallise and exert pressure within the road fabric.

By adopting ‘waterwise’ practices we may decrease the incidence and severity of urban salinity and save local government millions of dollars.

A salinity indicator is a sign or symptom that suggests an area is experiencing the impacts of salinity.

The water flowing into the excavation is termed groundwater. Continue digging and the water in the pores will continue flowing into the hole until it reaches a constant level....

Urban salinity occurs in areas where humans have changed natural ecosystems and affected the movement and storage of salts and water in the environment.