The Shepparton Irrigation Region Land and Water Salinity Management Plan, after four years of intensive planning and review, commenced implementation in July, 1990. Now, after four and a half years of experience gained from dealing with the day to day policies and practices of implementing a complex Salinity Management Plan over an area of 500,000 hectares in Northern Victoria, a Strategic Plan for the next five years is being developed. It will accommodate the output of new research and the changing needs of the Fanning Community and Government and includes a detailed re-evaluation of the economic priorities of each of the Plan's major implementation Programs, in a climate of limited and competitive funding resources.