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Funding

Regional funding

Delivery of the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality (NAP) is primarily through funding of regional plans and investment strategies.

Check with your regional facilitator  for information on possible funds available for community and individual projects within your region or check the web site of your regional body.

For information on additional sources of NRM funding see

• NRM funding page 

National Market-Based Instruments Pilots Programme

Market-based instruments (MBIs) are being used in natural resource management to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the significant amount of funding invested in NRM problems by the Australian Government, state and territory government, industry, communities and individuals. The National Market-Based Instruments Pilot Programme is a national initiative that is seeking to increase Australia's capacity to use MBIs in managing natural resource issues. It has committed a total of up to $10 million to a range of projects through to June 2008.

For further information see

• National Market-Based Instruments Pilots Programme

Community Stream Sampling and Salinity Mapping Programme

Part of the emphasis of the NAP is on mapping where salinity is a problem for sustainable production or the environment. The resulting maps will help land managers develop more effective strategies for dealing with salinity based on better knowledge of how salt spreads through the landscape. $20 million was allocated for three years (2005-2006 to 2007-2008) to map salinity with the bulk of funds going to regional bodies.

The Bureau of Rural Sciences is managing the community stream sampling and salinity mapping programme and has produced fact sheets providing an outline of activities under the programme.

• Fact sheet One - Community stream sampling and salinity mapping in the Murray-Darling Basin 
• Fact Sheet Two - Stream sampling for salinity 
• Fact Sheet Three - Airborne electromagnetics for salinity and groundwater mapping 

See also the following Science for decision makers publications

• Sourcing the salt: How to find out if your catchment is contributing to a salinity problem 
• Five steps to tackling salinity 

Information on programme activities in the Central West natural resource management region in New South Wales is available at

• Salinity and groundwater mapping in the lower Central West Catchment 

For further information on the range of available mapping technologies that can be used to support salinity management and mapping and decision making at multiple scales, see Salinity Mapping Methods in the Australian Context on the NRM web site.

• Salinity Mapping Methods in the Australian Context 

See the media releases page for funding announcements.