Warning: Use of undefined constant referer - assumed 'referer' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 102

Warning: Use of undefined constant host - assumed 'host' (this will throw an Error in a future version of PHP) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 105

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays:102) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 106

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays:102) in /usr/home/essaywo/public_html/essays on line 109
Soil Salinity - Papers Online

Soil Salinity

Salinity in both the rivers and on the land is one of the main and most costly
results of overclearing and irrigation. Salinity is caused by changes in the
delicate balance between surface water and groundwater systems. A small increase
in the infiltration of water from the topsoil to the groundwater, due to
rainfall or irrigation, can result in a dramatic rise in groundwater pressure
and watertable levels.

The trees of the open forests are now replaced by shallow-rooted crops and
pastures which absorb far less water than the native trees. Those trees had been
massive water pumps, sucking up moisture from deep underground and putting it
back into the atmosphere through the evaporation ...

Want to read the rest of this paper?
Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay
and over 50,000 other term papers

enters nearby rivers and wetlands. In cattle-grazing areas, the animals
often gather at saline seeps to lick the salt, which leads to further erosion.

Salinity affects around 560,000 hectares of the Murray-Darling basin's most
productive irrigation lands, mostly in southern New South Wales, and northern
Victoria, and partly in South Australia. This represents more than half the
total irrigation area. In Western Australia, about 250 square kilometres of
agricultural land is going out of production every year because of soil salinity
caused by overclearing of native ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays.
Write better papers. Get better grades.

Already a member? Login

CITE THIS PAGE:

APA
MLA
Chicago
Turabian

Soil Salinity. (2007, April 10). Retrieved April 24, 2024, from http://www.essayworld.com/essays/Soil-Salinity/63156

"Soil Salinity." Essayworld.com. Essayworld.com, 10 Apr. 2007. Web. 24 Apr. 2024. <http://www.essayworld.com/essays/Soil-Salinity/63156>

"Soil Salinity." Essayworld.com. April 10, 2007. Accessed April 24, 2024. http://www.essayworld.com/essays/Soil-Salinity/63156.

JOIN NOW

Join today and get instant access to this and 50,000+ other essays

PAPER DETAILS

Added: 4/10/2007 07:37:14 PM
Category: Science & Nature
Type: Free Paper
Words: 286
Pages: 2

Save |

Report

SHARE THIS PAPER

SAVED ESSAYS

Save and find your favorite essays easier