Physical Aspects

Treated Wastewater in Agriculture: Use and Impacts on the Soil Environment and Crops

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 306-327

  Levy, Guy J ^a   Assouline, Shmuel ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Final infiltration rate (FIR) and runoff data for different treatments; Physical aspects; Processes, negatively affecting soil structural stability clay swelling and dispersion; Saturated hydraulic conductivity, function of sodium adsorption ratio (SAR) and electrolyte concentration in solution; Soil erosion by water detachment, entrainment and soil particle deposition; Soil loss as function of clay content wetting rate for soils irrigated with freshwater and treated sewage water; Soil structural stability, soil retaining its arrangement of solid and pore space; Soil surface sealing, infiltration and runoff; Treated wastewater (TWW) for irrigation arid and semiarid regions; Water repellency in soils, hydrophobic properties resisting or retarding water infiltration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859420575     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444328561.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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