F resh water resources of the world are declining because of natural and human activities. As a consequence, humans have to work on non-formal water supplies to meet its personal, agricultural and industrial uses (Qadir et al., 2007). Considerable evidence exists which describes that the farmers use saline groundwater and/or wastewater for crop cultivation in developing countries including Pakistan
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