Farming With Salty Water Is Possible 

So it's not just ocean water, now more industry is needed to salinate it?

After few years they will end up with desertification of the land😢

@@stannumshiva those lands are marshes and are regularly flooded. Look up "waddengebied". The testing area is Texel, it's a dutch Island which is basically a big sandbank.

yes of course that is the problem that is not addressed. this experiment did a simple test over a very short time span. BUT, if you continuously salinate the soil for a few generations, the salt levels will become intolerable and the land will die. they conveniently neglected to inform the public of that consequence.

Thanks, that is exactly what I was afraid off, this is short term solution with disastrous consequences to follow. Salt does not disappear, it builds up unless they have found a way for the plants to absorb the salt, the land becomes unusable after a few years.

typical humans

I don't think you understand what they're doing here. They are salinating the soil in Holland to find out what crops grow well in salinated soil. When they find out what crops grow well under salty conditions they use them to plant them in salinated soil, they don't water them with salinated water in Pakistan, but the soil there is so salinated that the crops have to do well under these circumstances.

In Pakistan specially in cholistan desert salt problem is created by poor agronomic practices not like other areas.once plantation starts with in two years 75 percent land can be reclaim.

Not true, feeding microbes that feed the plants, it’s why potatoes work so well

What about with well water that has been damaged from oil wells dumping their by product in the ground for a lot of years. Our well water is extremely high in sodium. So it kills anything we need to water with it

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redskywalker193 The big challenge is how to lower salt level in soils.

the solution is simple. don't pump up (brackish) ground water so that sea water underground pushes in on the ground water and start oversupplying desalinated water from the top to wash the salts deeper. Its a feasible solution but you need enough energy (which we don't have a shortage of in energy from the sun) to desalinate seawater and pump it inwards.

ah is that how ground water becomes brackish jo? never knew or really thought about it, but that makes sense! & I was wondering/thinking that too redskywalker! Has to be long term damage if you keep adding more & more salt water to areas with high evaporation rates!

@lilac lizard Yes in coastal area's where us humans pump up more drinking / irrigation water from the ground than nature can resupply with rain / riverfloods, seawater below grounds (below the seabeds) will slowly start flowing inlands and salinate the groundwater below land. The irony is because we dike up our rivers preventing floods will cause more salt water to flow directly to sea through the river instead of pushing back through the ground. We need to limit the amount of water we take from coastal grounds and the limit should be less then the amount of rain on the lands. Yearly variations are not an issue, we can work with decade average and take the yearly part of that. That does not mean we should limit the amount of water we use, we should have unlimited supply of water to people / agriculture but instead should pump up ground water from below the seabed and desalinate that using solar/wind power. Then we can balance it out again.

jo han I'm in tune with these opinions as of this far. I've also wondered how much more the areas that get salted from roads can take (and the news stations go crazy; "Why weren't the salt trucks out faster?"). Cinders? -The drainage systems get filled. There really aren't perfect solutions as far as I know. A typical saying in the filtration world is: the solution to pollution is dilution.

What makes you think that?

Hi did you find a way to get fresh water in an area of saline underground water?

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@Raghunath Reddy most of land in Pakistan is salty soil .. So this research will help in agriculture in Pakistan .. Even in rajasthan we have salty soil and salty water somewhere .. As thar desert was once a part of sea .. millions of years ago .. Even before Harappa civilization

You’re so ignorant its cute

Hopefully AFTER the problem with all the micro plastics in the ocean gets solved that is, also the world can't only survive on root based vegetables, and if there's anything remotely similar to Panama disease happens again but with this other monoculture that's set us quite a bit behind. I agree this research is very important, but just wish there could be this much enthusiasm about more pressing matters like preventing us needing to rely on something like this for survival in the first place.

@@gabrock55 Good point and yes the big solution would be people being able to use land again for their livelihood and know that it is theirs to work and benefit from for their families

good thinking, but I'm thinking even better would be if it would be possible to grow some sort of edible seaweed to absorb some of the salt first, or instead of the land based plants. Spirulina's fresh water, but it grows great in shallow tanks in the desert, so I'm wondering if there's salt water alternatives to that

not enough actually, pretty much all our soil is slowely getting salter, pretty big problem for our agriculture

No, depopulation is.

However a large amount of those trees also require very specific soil properties, most of which can't be easily replicated, mix in issues of elevation and temperature it'll get very complicated and expensive very fast. Maybe there can be some way of genetically modifying or grafting but with how long it takes to grow trees, well put it this way how long this comment has been on this video most those trees would only be barely 2 ft tall. Prevention will always be better than the cure no way around it. More energy and time needs to be spent on cutting back a lot of our wasteful habits that are causing the real problem with salt water.

Lmao dude

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they started in 2012 and are still continuing today.

@@bapo224 source???

@@losxmatitas6950 look it up on google yourself, I found an article about it.

problem with that is the salt builds up on the ground, the water evaporates, but salt stays behind.

it is only an idea but they could then harvest salt from the soil and have 2 industries going on in that place in different times of the year of course I have no knowledge in this topic but that's a quick suggestion

salt was actually pretty widely harvested all along the dutch coast in the late dark ages, they did that by cooking a mixture of 'soil and salt sea water. some small villages could produce up to 6 million kilos salt a year, of wich almost all was ment for export.

www.zeeuwseankers.nl/data/uploads/201407221053ce1db8bd140.jpg here's a image on a dutch history website giving you guys an idea how..

@@marianagodinezsansores1014 The dame goes for the salt left in dessalinization plants. Bt I also have no knowledge, just like you. Let's meet one of these days :)

But the video just highlighted the issue here

texel, the first island in the row of islands above the netherlands.

Can you tell me that how salinity effecte to your land i have a research paper about soil salinity plz sister help me

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Reverse Ozmosis will remove salts

Yes, but we are talking about the agriculture of plants we produce for food, maybe we have to look into alternative plants that can grow inside or with high salt-level water. That can be a great way of solving the incoming world food crisis.

what are you going to do with these microorganisms? most people struggle to eat even seaweeds because of how salty they are! You won't be able to eat them & they're not likely to grow on only salt, so what are you going to feed them? will likely take more resourses than it gives! You need to remember that desert areas can loose up to 10mms of water a day in evaporation, which results in a LOT of salt when seawater is used! Australia messed around with the idea for years of digging some sort of canal from the ocean to the inland below sea level salt water Lake Eyre, knowing the evaporation from it could change the entire environment due to the huge amount of evaporation, but the salt has always been too much of a problem for it to become reality

What ?