Coleambally is the town that the Australian rice industry built. More recently it has been in the news because the government has bought more than 5% of the water licensed to farmers in the area. The chairman of the irrigation authority drew attention to the issue by offering to sell all of the water for $3.5 billion.
Below is an area of about 50 acres that had been affected by salinity on a former rice farm. The landholder is planning to plant saltbush to help drain the salt back into the ground.
