Report
Stream salinity status and trends in south-west Western Australia
Salinity and land use impacts series, SLUI 38, Natural Resource Management and Salinity Division, Dept. of Environment
2005
Abstract
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. Stream salinity was still rising at many of the sites analysed. Sixty-six percent of the analysed rivers had higher salinities in the last 10 years (1993–2002) than in the previous 10 (1983–92). Part of the reason for the higher salinity was lower rainfall over the last 10 years.
Details
- Title
- Stream salinity status and trends in south-west Western Australia
- Authors/Creators
- Xanthe MayerJohn K RuprechtM. Bari
- Series
- Salinity and land use impacts series; SLUI 38
- Publisher
- Natural Resource Management and Salinity Division, Dept. of Environment; East Perth, W.A
- Number of pages
- viii, 176
- Identifiers
- 991005559669507891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Centre for Water, Energy and Waste
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Report
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