The problem of salt recycling and seawater intrusion in coastal irrigated plains: an example from the Kiti aquifer (Southern Cyprus)

In coastal aquifers which are exploited for agricultural purposes, salinisation by salt recycling from irrigation is superimposed on the effects of seawater intrusion. Water quality degradation of irrigation pumping wells caused by seawater intrusion further enhances salinisation by irrigation, as the extracted solute mass is recycled and is not withdrawn from the system. The main objective of this study is the investigation and quantification of the impact of solute recycling from irrigation relative to seawater intrusion. A solute mass budget was established by expressing the solute mass return flow as fraction of the extracted solute mass from wells by means of a solute mass return flow ratio ðrrÞ: The obtained expression for the relative contribution of

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