Article: Effects of long-term irrigation with reclaimed water on soils of the Northern Adelaide Plains, South Australia.

Introduction

Current and future generations worldwide need to be more efficient with their use of limited water resources. The reclamation and agricultural reuse of wastewater is one means of achieving this (Oster 1994; Bahri 1999). A small number of agriculturalists of the Northern Adelaide Plains (NAP) have been, within South Australian Department of Human Services restrictions, irrigating with water reclaimed from Adelaide's major sewage treatments work for up to 28 years. These agriculturalists invested in their own infrastructure to pump secondary treated water (Class D; Anon. 1999) to their properties from the Bolivar (Sooth Australia) Sewage Treatment ...

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