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  2. Desalination - Wikipedia

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    Water can evaporate through several other physical effects besides solar irradiation. These effects have been included in a multidisciplinary desalination methodology in the IBTS Greenhouse. The IBTS is an industrial desalination (power)plant on one side and a greenhouse operating with the natural water cycle (scaled down 1:10) on the other side.

  3. Freshwater salinization - Wikipedia

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    The toxic levels of salt ions can directly result in physiological changes in species which can cause harmful effects to not only the individual, but also the species population. [19] The various effects on these organisms can then indirectly affect the overall freshwater ecosystem by modifying the aquatic community structure and function. [ 19 ]

  4. Soil salinity control - Wikipedia

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    This damage is an average of 2,000 hectares of irrigated land in arid and semi-arid areas daily for more than 20 years across 75 countries (each week the world loses an area larger than Manhattan)...To feed the world's anticipated nine billion people by 2050, and with little new productive land available, it's a case of all lands needed on deck.—principal author Manzoor Qadir, Assistant ...

  5. Here's how building a desalination plant may impact water ...

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    Estimates put construction of a plant generating 30 million gallons of water per day at about $541.5 million, with a total cost of $757.5 million.

  6. EPA made a decision on city of Corpus Christi's desalination ...

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    EPA’s decision clears another pathway in city officials’ pursuit for full permitting to operate a seawater desalination plant at its selected Inner Harbor site, located off Nueces Bay ...

  7. A Civil Rights complaint on a proposed desalination plant has ...

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    A Civil Rights complaint related to a proposed desalination plant site has been deferred to the U.S. Department of Justice. ... concerning the legality of land use decisions, policies and ...

  8. Soil salinity - Wikipedia

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    Detrimental effects on plant growth and yield; Damage to infrastructure (roads, bricks, corrosion of pipes and cables) Reduction of water quality for users, sedimentation problems, increased leaching of metals, [6] especially copper, cadmium, manganese and zinc. Soil erosion ultimately, when crops are too strongly affected by the amounts of salts.

  9. Here's what commissioners decided on the city of Corpus ... - AOL

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    Other dates of anticipated next steps, as shown in the presentation, include discussion on the city’s drought contingency and water conservation plan in late April and in June, a site visit of a ...