Brackish groundwater desalination by reverse osmosis in southeastern Spain. Presence of emerging contaminants and potential impacts on soil-aquifer media

Desalinated brackish groundwater is becoming a new source of water supply to comply with growing water demands, especially in (semi-) arid countries. Recent publications show that some chemical compounds may persist in an unaltered form after the desalination processes and that there is an associated risk of mixing waters with different salinity for irrigation. At the university of Alicante campus (Spain), a mix of desalinated brackish groundwater and water from the existing aquifer is currently applied for landscape irrigation. The presence of 209 emerging compounds, surfactants, priority substances according to the 2008/105/EC Directive, 11 heavy metals and microbiological organisms in blended water and aquifer samples was investigated. Thirty-five compounds were detected (pesticides, pharmaceuticals and surfactants) among them two priority substances α-endosulfan and Ni were found above the permitted maximum concentration. Blended water used for landscape irrigation during the summer period is supersaturated with respect to carbonates, which may ultimately lead to mineral precipitation in the soil-aquifer media and changes in hydraulic parameters.

Wastewater irrigation at Tallahassee, Florida /

Aug. 1979.

Long-term effects of land application of domestic wastewater : Roswell, New Mexico, slow rate irrigation site /

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Achieving irrigation return flow quality control through improved legal systems /

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Potential effects of irrigation practices on crop yields in Grand Valley /

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Minimizing salt in return flow through irrigation management : interim report /

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Evaluation of irrigation methods for salinity control in Grand Valley /

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Western water laws and irrigation return flow /

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Costs of wastewater treatment by land application /

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Supplemental report on Rio Grande and Weminuche Pass divisions, San Luis Valley Project, Rio Grande Basin, Colorado. Report by the Dept. of the Interior.

"Supplements the Bureau of Reclamation report which was printed as H. D. 693, 76th Congress, 3rd session, under the title of: Reservoirs on the San Luis Valley Project in Colorado [1940]"

Facts for farmers : also for the family circle : a compost of rich materials for all landowners, about domestic animals and domestic economy, farm buildings, gardens, orchards, and vineyards : and all farm crops, tools, fences, fertilization, draining, and irrigation : with an appendix on the diseases and cures of domestic animals /

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Sprinkling for irrigation /

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Policy alternatives for pump irrigation in Indonesia /

"A Small Scale Irrigation Management Project Applied Study prepared for the USAID Mission to Indonesia by the Irrigation Support Project for Asia and the Near East and for the Ford Foundation by the Centre for Agro-Socioeconomic Research."

To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct facilities to provide water for irrigation, municipal, domestic, military, and other uses from the Santa Margarita River, California, and for other purposes : report (to accompany H.R. 125) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office).

"November 16, 2005"--Pt. 1.

Report of the Special committee of the United States Senate on irrigation and reclamation of arid lands ...

Binder's numbering: v.1 and 2; v.3 and 4.