Irrigation system scale - solutions:
Fighting salinity
Controling salinity at the irrigation system scale focuses on maintaining a neutral or a negative salt balance of
the irrigation system, including storage of salts in groundwater.
- Open water evaporation ponds
- Subsurface evaporation ponds
- Improving drainage infrastructure
- Improving drainage system operation and maintenance
- Improving adequancy, accuracy and equitability of irrigation water delivery
- Land surveying for quality assessment and accompanying decision support systems
- Land fallowing
- Management of water tables
- Mixing of irrigation and drainage water
- Measure, monitor and record data on water and salinity to enable understanding of irrigation system
Mixed systems
Living with salinity
