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Managing saline groundwater
This section gives an overview of various measures, actions and practices conducted throughout the world to manage groundwater salinity.
These measures, actions and practices can be bottom-up approaches and practiced by individuals (like farmers on their plots), groups of groundwater users (like in water users associations, or combined industries). Other measures, actions and practices are planned and practiced by governmental and non-governmental organisations that are responsible for groundwater, soil and salinity management.
Some of the measures have a mitigation objective and aim at keeping groundwater salinity levels below harmful thresholds. Other measures have a more adaptive approach and accept the high groundwater salinity encountered but adjust the groundwater use in such a way that is not harmful. The actions and measures can be broadly grouped in three categories: