We Learn to Grow Crops in Saltwater

Just in time, too.As climate change brings an increase in drought areas and rising sea levels we have to find a solution to soil salinity if our civilization is to survive.


Previous civilizations dependant on irrigation of dry soil have failed. The gradual increased salinity in irrigated dry soil has ended civilizations even though they solved the engineering and logistic problems of designing, building, and maintaining irrigation systems, but neglected the long-term effects of salinization.


We’ll have no choice but to learn to farm in salty water, as the next few centuries’ climate change dries up growing areas from California, Florida and the Middle East, to Africa and China and Australia - - and as seawater increasingly infiltrates low slung island nations’ crops.


So the research findings of a group of scientists from the University of Adelaide in Australia and Department of Plant Sciences at the University of Cambridge, UK. attempting to learn to grow crops in saltwater is very good news.



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