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Maybe a dumb question but how is it possible to use salt water for agricultural irrigation? I thought the high salt content would kill most plants?
by usefulcat 3y ago
Maybe a dumb question but how is it possible to use salt water for agricultural irrigation? I thought the high salt content would kill most plants?
- bombcar 3y agoI assume the problem is that the agricultural usages divert water that is running into the lake, so it dries up.
- sophacles 3y agoYou're right. Agriculture is taking water from the freshwater streams that would otherwise replace what evaporates from the lake.
- what-no-tests 3y agoThe Salt Lake is fed by other rivers and tributaries, which are currently being used as sources of freshwater by farmers and towns. The concern is that the farmers and towns are using the water before it can get to the Salt Lake.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y agoIt's fresh water before it gets to the lake.
- brokenbyclouds 3y agoAs others have said, the problem is the lake drying up from lack of incoming water. The consequences of the lake drying up is the end of the "lake effect" cycle, the arsenic in the dried lakebed being released into the air, etc