c. Saline water intrusion or

Below the surface there is hard saline water.

And in most parts it is saline, not fit for drinking.

Multi season study of mangrove swamps, shrimp ponds and saline areas

It will cause rising seas. It will cause saline deposited into wells and into lands.

Excessive groundwater extraction in many cities in Asia, Europe and Latin America has caused saline intrusion and ground subsidence.

To give just one example, in Peru harsh local environments, characterized by depleted saline soils and high altitudes, have traditionally caused many crops to fail.

Iran estimates that up to 37 per cent of the polluting substances, including saline compounds, from the oil well fires in Kuwait were deposited on its territory.

Saline effluent from the treatment plant also led to an increase in the salinity of irrigation waters drawn from the King Talal reservoir and the King Abdullah canal.

Iraq further asserts that, although Jordan states that the increased salinity seriously affected its tomato crop, Jordan replaced tomatoes with other crops that are equally difficult to grow in saline soils.

Yu Shuxun introduced, with the new idea of innovative breeding, they cultivate a new line of extra early ripening, saline alkaline tolerance, low temperature resistant, and high yield upland cotton Chinese Cotton 619 .

The study focused on saline and sodic lands but other degradation processes of great importance in Kenya include fertility decline, soil acidification and aluminium toxicity, organic matter decline, wind and water erosion, and soil compaction.

In this regard, with the support of IFAD, ACSAD developed a project on the utilization of brackish and saline water in north Africa (Algeria and Tunisia) in cooperation with the German Earth Science Institute (BGR), it implemented a project on the vulnerability of soil and water pollution in 16 Arab countries.

285. For this purpose, in addition to completion of the programmes for restructuring of the holding of common land, saline land and land reserved for religious purposes, planned for the end of the Eighth Plan at the latest, comprehensive legal arrangements for removal of the land use constraints will be submitted for adoption.

Small island developing States continue to face water management and water access challenges, caused in part by deficiencies in water availability, water catchment and storage, pollution of water resources, saline intrusion (which may be exacerbated, inter alia, by sea level rise, unsustainable management of water resources and climate variability and climate change) and leakage in the delivery system.