Impact of Short Term Irrigation with Different Water Types on Some Chemical and Physical Soil Properties

Abstract

The concern of this study is determine the quality of soil when irrigation used treated water and wastewater in comparison with soil irrigated with tap water on some chemical and physical soil properties. The experiment components were three trials carried out under greenhouse conditions, 10 pots for each trial. The first trial irrigated with tap water, the second trial irrigated by treated water and the third trial irrigated with wastewater. The experiment conducted to study the impact of water types on some soil physical and chemical properties. The experiment included important analysis for water and soil before and after irrigation. The results showed that the values for electrical conductivity (EC) were 0.850, 308 and 324 μs/cm for the treated soil with tap water, treated water and wastewater, respectively. The variation of pH values seems to be approximately constant between the different of water used. The percent of organic matter (OM) in soils receiving treated water and wastewater 4.7% and 5.2% respectively were higher than values in soil treated with tap water 3%. The same trend was in organic carbon (OC) in soils receiving treated water and wastewater 58.5% and 89% respectively, while soil treated with tap water showed the lowest value 27.7%. Soil particle density (SPD) increased significantly in both water treatments were the values was 2 g/cm 3 in tap water but increased value 2.8 g/cm 3 and 3.3 g/cm 3 in treated water and wastewater used respectively. The Bulk Density (BD) values range 1.1 g/cm 3 in soil irrigated with tap water 1.5 g/cm 3 in soil irrigated with treated water and 1.85 g/cm 3 in soil irrigated with treated water. The results of soil analysis before and after planting showed that most of the values increased for the physical and chemical soil properties.

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) cultivars physiological, biochemical performance and yield parameters response to acid mine water irrigation and soil physiochemical properties

“…Values, however, remained over the irrigation standard that is advised 39 . Sulfate can hinder a plant’s ability to absorb other nutrients when present in high concentrations, as reported by 49 . For the studied values, the physiochemical properties of soil irrigated with treated AMD water were significant (p < 0.05) among treatments (Table 1 ).…”