Evaluation of water quality loushan olive orchards and negative effects of agriculture on the environment

Subject Areas : Irrigation and Drainage

علی لاهیجی ¹ ()
علیرضا قدرتی ² ()

Received: 2021-10-04 Accepted : 2022-06-12 Published : 2022-09-06

Keywords: Water Quality, agriculture, Salinity, کشاورزی, شوری, کیفیت آب, Land degradation, تخریب خاک,

Abstract :

Loushan is also one area of the Gilan province with arid southern climates due to low rainfall (average 250 mm per year) and has the highest level of drought to irrigate olive orchards in the province that is dependent on the water from these wells , since the Loushan area quality of water of wells is not defined. In order to evaluation of the quality of these waters that about 40 water samples were collected of olive gardens in this area. The results showed that 62.16 % salinity waters are between 700 and 3,000 μmohs/cm and 27 % of waters with a salinity of over 3000 μmohs/cm , that based on classification Wilcox about 13 % of waters are in-class C2S1 and 60 % of waters are in class C3S1 that are component of salt water by applying devices to use and 27 % waters are in-class C4S1 a saline waters and harmful for agriculture . The study found that salinity in irrigation water was very high in some areas and neglect in this area will be a threat to this gardens which caused the accumulation of salts , soil degradation and reduction of yield, thus is essential to strategies for utilizing of this waters and soluble dissolved waters accumulated in the soil.

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