Archive: Posts Tagged ‘Soil’

The benefits of using Crystal Soil for your cut flowers and plants

No comments December 6th, 2009

Flowering plants need light, water and nutrients to grow and bloom. You supply a clear vase; Crystal Soil provides an excellent source of water and nutrients. Crystal Soil also known as Water Crystals is a new type of clean, environmentally friendly potting material that comes in an array of beautiful colors. It can absorb many times its weight in water. It’s as small as a sesame seed but can grow to the size of an acorn. You simply add it to clean water and wait a few hours for the Read more

Assessment of the Impact of Industrial Effluents on the Quality of Irrigation Water and Changes on Soil Characteristics (a Case of Kombolcha Town)

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INTRODUCTION With the ever increasing demand on irrigation water supply, farmlands are frequently faced with utilization of poor quality irrigation water. In many parts of Ethiopia, waste water, which are disposed to wells, ponds, streams and treatment plants, are used as a source of irrigation water as well as for drinking (Alemtsehaye, 2002). But, the continued application of poor quality irrigation water can reduce the yield of farmlands. Water quality for agricultural purpose is Read more

Lead Pollution From Vehiclar Emission in Roadside Vegetation and Soil Along Road

No comments December 6th, 2009

Lead has been known as potential health hazard. The ubiquity of lead and its known toxicity to man and wildlife necessitates its continual determination in the environment. Another major contributing source of environmental lead burden is from the automobile and industrial machinery exhaust from the internal combustion engines. The use of organic lead compounds such as tetraethyl lead and tetra methyl lead as additives in petrol has been of continual concern to environmental scientists Read more