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  • Coastal wetland bird sanctuaries will come under threat from salinisation due to rising sea levels and storm surges.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • The Southern Institute for Irrigation also says that the dry spell, shortage of water, and salinisation will worsen by April and May.

    Global Issues News Headlines Global Issues 2010

  • Overpumping and inefficient irrigation techniques have led to sharply declining groundwater levels, loss of wetlands and salinisation of agricultural lands.

    Chinalyst - China blogs in English panamajack 2010

  • Overpumping and inefficient irrigation techniques have led to sharply declining groundwater levels, loss of wetlands and salinisation of agricultural lands.

    Chinalyst - China blogs in English 2010

  • Overpumping and inefficient irrigation techniques have led to sharply declining groundwater levels, loss of wetlands and salinisation of agricultural lands.

    Chinalyst - China blogs in English panamajack 2010

  • Experts say that rice can grow in water that contains no more than a two - thousandth part of salt, but Kien Giang already has a salinisation of twice that level at present.

    Global Issues News Headlines Global Issues 2010

  • To help farmers make use of the annual cycle of flooding and salinisation, local experts had been promoting a new method of cultivation: alternating the culture of shrimp with that of rice.

    Global Issues News Headlines Global Issues 2010

  • Besides misgovernment in certain countries, it is soil depletion, erosion and salinisation by mismanagement which have lead to agricultural areas formerly used for food production being abandoned.

    Organic Consumers Association News Headlines 2010

  • This has not helped the serious salinisation of soil that is now threatening 620,000 hectares of winter-spring crops, based on data released in a workshop presided over by Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat on Mar. 12, at the southern province of Soc Trang.

    Global Issues News Headlines Global Issues 2010

  • And irrigation, they shamelessly assert, "always brings with it the problem of soil salinisation."

    LaRouche's Latest 2010

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