SALINITY CONTROL (Continued)
Effects
Salinization of rivers pollutes downstream fresh water and renders it unfit for fresh-water uses [domestic and agriculture].
Salinization may pollute lakes and their closed [endorheic] basins.
Salinization eventually renders unfeasible or impractical the agricultural enterprise.
Solution
Collect agricultural wastewaters.
Treat agricultural wastewaters properly [a difficult and expensive undertaking].
Dispose of agricultural wastewaters in the ocean [some people oppose even this].
Farm close to the ocean to cut down cost of transport.
Make end users [people] pay for the increased cost of growing crops in a sustainable fashion.
Research how to effectively desalinize agricultural wastewaters.
Examples of unresolved salinity cases:
Salton Sea, California's San Joaquin Valley.