Irrigation with seawater
Tuesday 17 January 2012
A recently published news item in the New Agriculturist features the work of Prof Adel Sharif
A new system which allows food crops to be irrigated with seawater hopes to solve global problems of food production.
The low-cost solution, which makes seawater irrigation on a large scale a realistic and sustainable solution to food supply problems, does not require high pressure pumps or expensive distillation units. Instead, the new approach makes use of the natural process of evaporation alongside a membrane designed to retain the impurities in the water, including the salts, allowing only pure water to reach the plants.
Read the full article here.
To learn more about Prof Sharif's work please visit the Centre for Osmosis Research and Applications web pages.
