Saline Seep

Thursday, 04 November 2021

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Celebrating the International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem

Sri Lanka News 02 Aug 2021

Celebrating the International Day for the Conservation of the Mangrove Ecosystem ... The Omari Lagoon is a unique lagoon which is not directly connected to the sea; as the area is lower that the sea level, there is constant salinity seeping through the soil. Because of the mangroves, salinity is prevented from reaching the inland further ... Colombo . .

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KU academic becomes contributor to three-volume global project on halophytes

The News International 05 Jul 2021

From Molecules to Ecosystems towards Biosaline Agriculture’, which provides a unique resource of knowledge on halophytes that can play a major role to deal with the food crisis and salinity threat to agriculture ... She worked on a number projects to utilise saline lands in the coastal areas and inlands of Sindh for agriculture.

photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

Palestinians filling plastic bottles and jerry cans with drinking water from a public tap at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) headquarters in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Rafah on January 28, 2013. The Israeli blockade on Gaza has made life more difficult for the inhabitants of the camp. Unemployment levels have increased dramatically, with a large proportion of the residents relying on UNRWA's nutritional and financial assistance.Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN

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97% of Gaza’s water unfit for domestic use, UN warns

The National 27 May 2021

The United Nations puts scarcity and pollution of water resources at the forefront of Gaza’s scourges ... High salinity, for example, can cause kidney stones and problems in the urinary tract ... The level drops and seawater seeps in, raising salinity ... Much of the wastewater is not treated, allowing it to seep back into the soil and pollute water supplies ... .

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Surge in visitors to Spiral Jetty through the pandemic leads to plans for more amenities ...

The Art Newspaper 27 May 2021

“That road is key to accessing that pink, high-saline water,” she says. The tar seeps that have formed around the lake as a result of the decade-long drought are also used “as an analogue measurement for the changing climate”, Butler says.

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Seed facility, drone use, variety trials and more part of WREC efforts in 2020

Williston Herald 27 Feb 2021

And they’re just getting started ... That’s going to be a big plus.” ... Clair Keene said ... Other research at WREC in 2020 included pipeline reclamation, saline seep reclamation, Kernza variety trials, herbicide safety trials, a 20-year long-term cropping systems project, plant pathology research, irrigated cropping and tillage systems, and much more. .

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Solar technology assists Gaza’s contaminated-water emergency

Al Jazeera 30 Jan 2021

Gaza City – Water in the Gaza Strip is mostly undrinkable and loaded with health hazards ... a company based in Israel ... Overuse of the aquifer has allowed seawater, which was largely polluted by sewage treated partly or not at all over the years, to seep into the underground water, increasing the levels of both salinity and contamination ... .

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SDSU Pierre Regional Center

Prairie Pioneer 14 Oct 2020

It is not uncommon to notice more saline seeps after a year of heavier precipitation followed by a ...

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High rice yield in heavy saline-alkali soil of NE China

China.dot.org 13 Oct 2020

On October 10, experts organized by the Cultivated Land Quality Monitoring and Protection Center (CLQMPC) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) estimated the yield of a demonstration paddy field with heavy saline-alkali soil ... It can also hinder the rise of salt-bearing groundwater to make the arable layer less salinized.

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A Kerala rice variety could be answer to troubles of cyclone-hit Bengal fields

Indian Express 01 Sep 2020

In mid-May, the Super Cyclone Amphan had left a trail of destruction across West Bengal, particularly in South 24 Parganas district where it broke embankments causing saline water to seep into agricultural fields making irreversible changes to the soil texture.

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Soil Health Practices Revive Salinity Areas Regenerating Dead Zones

Yankton Daily Press 25 Jul 2020

As the groundwater, water tables rise, due to increased precipitation, salts from this old marine deposit can seep to the soil surface and form white patches on the surface of fields and pastures, often referred to as saline seeps. The location of a saline seep depends on a number of factors.

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A month on, Amphan-hit still on their knees

The Telegraph India 20 Jun 2020

“I lost my house ... Water has receded from neighbour Aloke Bhuiyan’s land, but at the cost of fertility as saline water has seeped in ... Bikash Sardar, a farmer in Sibati-Kamardanaga village under Basirhat-1 block, is yet to drain out saline water that inundated his jute fields ... “Saline water entered my field that damaged the entire jute crop ... .

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Israeli water technology inaugurated in Gaza to offer clean drinking source

Cleveland Jewish News 14 Feb 2020

A machine that produces safe, clean drinking water out of air—manufactured by the Israel-based company Watergen—was inaugurated on Wednesday in the neighborhood of Abasan al-Kabira in the Gaza Strip as part of a pilot project ... The reduced water levels have resulted in saline water seeping in, further polluting the water in the aquifer ... 12, 2020 ... Gen ... .

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Saline Seep Reclamation With Salt-Tolerant Alfalfa

The Roundup 04 Feb 2020

Clair Keene, Williston Research Extension Center Cropping Systems specialist, will be discussing saline seep reclamation with salt-tolerant alfalfa at 3.20 p.m ... Keene has been researching how to prevent saline seep formation and growth ... At the Williston Research Center, a saline seep occupies one to two acres of a dryland field.

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Williston Hard Spring Wheat Show 2020 & NDSU Best Of The Best In Wheat Production ...

The Roundup 04 Feb 2020

The Hard Spring Wheat Show 2020 & North Dakota State University (NDSU) Best of the Best in Wheat Production will take place at the Williston Area Recreation Center, 822 18th St. E., Williston, North Dakota on Thursday, Feb. 13. The event will kick off at 7 a.m ... NDSU Extension Soil Specialist, Dr ... Saline Seep Reclamation with Salt-Tolerant Alfalfa ... .

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Best of the Best coming to Williston's annual National Hard Spring Wheat Show

Williston Herald 30 Jan 2020

Williston will again host the Best of the Best in Wheat Research and Marketing this year, in conjunction with its annual National Hard Spring Wheat Show ... on Feb ... Presentations begin at 8 a.m ... There will also be discussions of soil acidity in Montana, soybean fertility in western North Dakota, saline seeps, market outlooks, and much more ... Andy Friskop ... .