In turn this impacts the amenity value of the downstream wetland, thereby reducing the direct and indirect income generated.
Where ranching predominates, wetlands provide choice dry-season pastures; corrals and milking sheds often perch on the islands.
They are ubiquitous in seasonal and perennial wetlands and are easily transportable after drying into cakes.
These flow conditions occur for example in marshes, wetlands and overland flow in vegetated areas.
The increasing uses and rising value of the wetlands have produced competition and conflict.
Customary multiple-use wetland regimes are based upon experience accumulated over generations by local communities.
Others believe that wetland drainage has no impact on flooding or are apathetic about the need to store water.
They struggle daily with issues related to farm income, soil salinization, wetland designations and regulations, drainage and private property rights.
