Australian landscapes are facing an increasing salinisation threat.
D. Hoey, M. Ahmed, M. Littleboy 2002, 'Landscape Salinisation and Management: An Australian Perspective', Journal of Agricultural and Marine Scienceshttps://journals.squ.edu.om/index.php/jams/article/view/603. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
On this basis it would be possible to screen rivers globally for risk from salinisation.
Ben J Kefford, Graeme L Hickey, Avital Gasith, Elad Ben-David, Jason E Dunlop, CarolynG Palmer, Kaylene Allan, Satish C Choy, Christophe Piscart 2012, 'Global scale variation in the salinity sensitivity of riverine macroinvertebrates:eastern Australia, France, Israel and South Africa.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3342278?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
These changes, however, trigger an environmental change in the form of waterlogging and soil salinisation.
Gül Özerol 2013, 'Institutions of farmer participation and environmental sustainability: a multi-levelanalysis from irrigation management in Harran Plain, Turkey', International Journal of the Commonshttp://www.thecommonsjournal.org/articles/10.18352/ijc.368/. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Thus, the main soil classes can be adopted to represent different leaching and salinisation risk patterns.
Abelardo A. A. Montenegro, Suzana M. G. L. Montenegro 2006, 'Variabilidade espacial de classes de textura, salinidade e condutividade hidráulicade solos em planície aluvial Spatial variability of textural classes, salinity andhydraulic conductivity of soil in an alluvial plain', Revista Brasileira de Engenharia Agrícola e Ambiental - Agriambihttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-43662006000100005. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The area under degradation due to wind erosion was followed by water logging, anthropogenic activities and salinisation.
Promila, K. E. Mothi Kumar, P. Sharma 2018, 'MONITORING THE SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF DEGRADED LANDS IN SIRSA DISTRICT', ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Scienceshttps://www.isprs-ann-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/IV-5/159/2018/isprs-annals-IV-5-159-2018.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
When not managed properly, these wastewaters may lead to salinisation of surface freshwater bodies in the region.
Annah Mabidi, Matthew S. Bird, Renzo Perissinotto 2018, 'Increasing salinity drastically reduces hatching success of crustaceans from depressionwetlands of the semi-arid Eastern Cape Karoo region, South Africa', Scientific Reportshttp://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41598-018-24137-0. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)