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The National Action Plan for Salinty and Water Quality ceased on 30 June 2008. It has been replaced by Caring for our Country .
The National Action Plan for Salinty and Water Quality web site is no longer being maintained or updated but remains here as an archive for your information.
National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality publications
Agreements
- Intergovernmental Agreements
The Commonwealth and all States and Territories have signed the overarching Intergovernmental Agreement on a National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality - Bilateral Agreements specify in detail the agreements between the Commonwealth and individual States and Territories on how the Action Plan will be implemented.
- Australian Capital Territory - signed 20 December 2006
- New South Wales - signed 17 May 2002
- Northern Territory - signed 7 February 2003
- Queensland - signed 1 March 2002
- South Australia - signed 8 June 2001
- Tasmania - signed 13 February 2002
- Victoria - signed 2 October 2001
- Western Australia - signed 11 September 2003
- Natural Heritage Trust Bilateral Agreements
Annual reports
- National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality (NAP) and Natural Heritage Trust (NHT) Regional Programs Report
- National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality (NAP) Annual Report
Books and reports
- Administration of the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality
- Intergovernmental Agreement on a National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality
- National Evaluations of the NHT and the NAP
- Evaluation of salinity outcomes of regional investment
- Evaluation of the current governance arrangements to support regional investment
- Evaluation of the effectiveness of bilateral agreements between the Australian Government and State/Territory Governments for the regional component of the extension of the Natural Heritage Trust
- Salinity mapping methods in the Australian context
- Science and information to support the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality and the Natural Heritage Trust: position paper
- The Business of Saving Water - the Report of the Murrumbidgee Valley Water Efficiency Project (the Pratt Water Report)
- Australian Government response to the Business of Saving Water
- Pratt Water Report working papers
- Whole of catchment water and salt balance to identify potential water saving options in the Murrumbidgee Catchment
- Stock and domestic water - delivery enhancement strategies
- Financing case study - Yanco Creek rehabilitation project public/private potential joint venture- preliminary evaluation
- Development approvals - draft State Environmental Planning Policy
- Murrumbidgee socio-economic profile
- Socio-economic assessment of water efficiency investments in the Murrumbidgee Valley
- Murrumbidgee en-route storages
- Summer demand project, on-farm/near-farm storage, workshop - incentives, constraints and opportunities
- Regulatory interventions to maximise water efficiencies in the Murrumbidgee Valley
- Hydrologic economic ranking of water saving options
- On-farm feasibility of conversion to water efficient irrigation systems in the Murrumbidgee Valley
- Delivery technology to save water in the near-farm zone
- Water supply and land use planning for sustainable water-efficient irrigation in the Murrumbidgee Valley - the Lake Wyangan case study
- Water efficiency improvements through environmental farming systems
- Murrumbidgee Valley ecological assessment
- Pre-feasibility study into bio-diesel
- Sequential biological concentration - review
- Feasibility of timber plantations in the upper Murrumbidgee catchment - a triple bottom line analysis
- Towards a National Framework for managing the impact of groundwater and surface water interaction in Australia
- Review of the Lower Goulburn Floodplain Rehabilitation Project
- Introduction to Desalination Technologies in Australia - 2 September 2002
- Economic and Technical Assessment of Desalination Technologies in Australia - 2 September 2002
- Salinity mapping methods in the Australian Context - January 2005
- Market-based Instruments Pilots Program
- Investigating new approaches - A Review of Natural Resource Management Pilots and Programs in Australia that Use Market-based Instruments - 2002
- Investigating new approaches - A Guide to The National Market-Based Instruments Pilots Program - 2002
- Round One
- Evaluation of Round One of the Market Based Instrument Pilot Program - 2005
- National Market Based Instrument Pilot Program Round One : An Interim Report - 2005
- Round One project reports
- Adoption of New Land Management Practices through Conservation Insurance - 2006
- Auction for landscape recovery (Southwest Australia) - 2005
- Cap and Trade for Salinity: Property Rights and Private Abatement Activities, a Laboratory Experiment Market - 2005
- Catchment Care - Developing an auction process for biodiversity gains and water quality outcomes - 2005
- Establishing East-west Landscape Corridors in the Southern Desert Uplands - 2005
- Establishing the potential for offset trading in the lower Fitzroy River - 2005
- Farming finance: creating positive land use change with a natural resource management leverage fund - 2006
- Green Offsets for Sustainable Regional Development - 2005
- Multiple-outcome auction of land-use change - 2005
- Dryland Salinity Credit Trade - 2006
- Tradable net recharge contracts in Coleambally Irrigation Area - 2005
Brochures
- Australia's Salinity Problem - 2001
- Frequently Asked Questions - 2001
- National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality - 2001
- Putting Salinity on the Map - October 2001
- Water Facts - 2001
Case studies
A number of project case studies from across Australia can be found on the NRM web site
Fact sheets
- Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry factsheets on NRM
- Natural Resource Management factsheet
- Partnerships
- Market Based Instruments fact sheets
- What are Market Based Instruments? (PDF - 101 KB)
- Auction or land management tender (PDF - 108 KB)
- Cap and trade mechanisms (PDF - 102 KB)
- Conservation agreements (PDF - 93 KB)
- Environmental risk management (PDF - 98 KB)
- Revolving funds (PDF - 93 KB)
- Leveraging private investment (PDF - 103 KB)
- Offsets (PDF - 98 KB)
- Product differentiation (PDF - 94 KB)
- Tax incentives (PDF - 89 KB)
Frameworks
- A national framework for improved groundwater management in Australia
- A national framework for improved wastewater reuse and stormwater management in Australia
- Council of Australian Governments (CoAG) Water Reform Framework
- National cooperative approach to integrated coastal zone management: Framework and implementation plan - 2006
- National framework for natural resource management standards and targets - 2002
- National natural resource management monitoring and evaluation framework - 2002
Guidelines
Legislation
Media releases
Newsletters
- In Focus (discontinued July 2006)
- National NRM Facilitator Network Newsletter (discontinued July 2006)
- Natural Resource Talk
- Related NRM newsletters
Policies
- Our Vital Resources: a National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality - 3 November 2000
- National groundwater policy papers
- Inquiry into water policy initiatives
- Wetlands Policy
- National Water Initiative
Strategies
See also
Key
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