Some of the problems associated with intensive irrigation include...

Question

Some of the problems associated with intensive irrigation include all of the following except
a. soil salinization.
b. overfertilization.
c. land subsidence.
d. aquifer depletion.

Accepted Answer

Hello everyone. And in today's video we have the following problem intensive irrigation is considered harmful to plants because it leads to. And we're giving a series of processes that we need to identify our answer from now, let's quickly recall what intensive irrigation is. It's simply the process of watering the soil of our plants or crops way too much, way more than it's really needed. And this may lead to different effects. So let's go over each of our answer choices so that we can understand them better. Starting with soil salinization, soil salinization is a process by which the salinity of soil increases. And if we think about what irrigation is, which is the process of putting this water for plants. This water may sometimes contain salt and as the water evaporates or as the water is used by the plants, the salt remain in the soil, causing it to become more silent and this is exactly what the process of soil salinization is. So it is a process caused by intensive irrigation and it will be one of our answer choices. So let's quickly now jump to answer choice B, which is aquifer depletion and aquifer depletion. These aquifers are simply water storages that are used for the irrigation of crops and as we use and an intense amount or an intense as we perform intensive irrigation or aquifers or water storages are going to be depleted. So these answer choices actually correct as well and we can highlight it and finally we have land subsidence and land subsidence is a process by which taking out certain groundwater causes the soil on top of it to calm down on that space, so the sinking of surfaces due to a lack of groundwater which was before running through it. And now as we are taking from these aquifers or from other water sources, these water for irrigation, this may be one of the results as well, so we're going to highlight it. So as we see, all of these processes are actually caused by intensive irrigation. So our answer choices actually going to be answer choice D, which is both A. B and C. Or all of them, And that is our final answer. So, thank you very much for sticking around until the end of this video, and I really hope it helped you.

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