Browsing by Subject "saline intrusion"

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    • As seas rise, saltwater plants offer hope farms will survive 

      (Manila Bulletin, June 16, 2015, on page B-8)
      On a sun-scorched wasteland near India’s southern tip, an unlikely garden filled with spiky shrubs and spindly greens is growing, seemingly against all odds. The plants are living on saltwater, coping with drought and ...

    • Salty water a new 'reality' as sea pushes inland 

      Thomson Reuters Foundation (The Philippine Star, January 16, 2020, on page B4)
      Thai authorities are trucking drinking water to parts of Bangkok and urging residents to shower less as a worsening drought and rising sea levels have increased salinity, a growing risk faced by many Asian cities, climate ...

    • Technology will help clean up our seas 

      Avila, Bobit S. (The Philippine Star, October 23, 2018, on page 9)
      Apparently there’s a group that calls themselves a “Plastic Bank.” It plans to create a currency for the world’s poor using plastic trash as its main product. As their story goes, “The company, formed in 2013, pays people ...

    • Worst drought in 40 years has turned Bangkok tap water salty 

      Bloomberg (BusinessWorld, January 9, 2020, on page S2/5)
      Some residents of Bangkok can literally taste the risk of a potentially damaging drought in Thailand. Tap water has turned saltier in parts of the city, a development blamed on the Chao Phraya river becoming too low to ...