Beta
39673

To What Extent Can Complimentary Irrigation of Wheat with Wastewater, on Soils Along Belbais Drain, Affect the Plants?

Article

Last updated: 04 Jan 2025

Subjects

-

Tags

-

Abstract

Water shortage is one of the important issues in the coming century. Thus, many countries are forced towards using non-conventional water sources such as wastewaters. Compared with fresh waters, treated wastewaters usually contain higher contents of plant nutrients. To assess the implications of using wastewater of Belbais drain for complimentary irrigations of wheat, ten locations along the drain were selected for water sampling. Soil and wheat samples were also collected from the nearby farms at the aforementioned locations. There were no specific trends or distribution patterns detected for contents of each of NO3-N, P, B and As along the drain. NO3-N in water had a slight to moderate degree of restriction on use.  Also, P-content exceeded its normal range in irrigation water. In spite of that, contents of N and P in wheat were within the normal range in shoot and grain. Content of B in water had a slight to moderate degree of restriction on use, but plants did not exhibit B toxicity symptoms. Contents of As in water of many locations exceeded the permissible level of 0.1 mg As L-1. Contents of As in soil (2.1 - 3.7 mg As kg-1) did not exceed the permissible level of 10 mg kg-1, but As in grains exceeded the permissible level of 1 mg kg-1 for food stuff. The calculated elemental grain/shoot ratio varied between 0.5439 and 0.8299. Individual practices of farmers on lands nearby Belbais drain are most certainly behind the increase in contents of the investigated elements in water of the drain. Efficient management of irrigation using wastewater of agricultural Drains in Egypt cannot be attained without increasing farmers' awareness of the negative aspects that may arise due to the unmanaged agricultural practices.

DOI

10.21608/jssae.2016.39673

Keywords

Belbais drain, wastewater reuse, nitrate, phosphate, boron, arsenic

Authors

First Name

M.

Last Name

Ali

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Soils and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Benha University, Egypt

Email

mahmood.abdullahali@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

A.

Last Name

Abdel-Hameed

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Soils and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Benha University, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

I.

Last Name

Farid

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Soils and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Benha University, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

M.

Last Name

Abbas

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Soils and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Benha University, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

H.

Last Name

Abbas

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Soils and Water Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Benha University, Egypt

Email

-

City

-

Orcid

-

Volume

7

Article Issue

6

Related Issue

6349

Issue Date

2016-06-01

Receive Date

2016-06-09

Publish Date

2016-06-01

Page Start

409

Page End

416

Print ISSN

2090-3685

Online ISSN

2090-3766

Link

https://jssae.journals.ekb.eg/article_39673.html

Detail API

https://jssae.journals.ekb.eg/service?article_code=39673

Order

5

Type

Original Article

Type Code

889

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Journal of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Engineering

Publication Link

https://jssae.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

To What Extent Can Complimentary Irrigation of Wheat with Wastewater, on Soils Along Belbais Drain, Affect the Plants?

Details

Type

Article

Created At

22 Jan 2023