salty water – Aquarius-Systems https://aquarius-systems.com Surface Water Management Equipment Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:45:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://aquarius-systems.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/cropped-favicon-32x32.png salty water – Aquarius-Systems https://aquarius-systems.com 32 32 Colorado River Getting Saltier https://aquarius-systems.com/colorado-river-getting-saltier/ Wed, 05 Jan 2022 21:00:32 +0000 https://aquarius-systems.com/?p=3056 Water suppliers along the drought-stricken Colorado River hope to tackle another tricky issue after the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation installs a new leader: salty water.

The river provides water for 40 million people from Colorado to California, and helps irrigate 5.5 million acres of farm and ranchland in the U.S. But all that water also comes with 9 million tons of salt that flow through the system as it heads to Mexico, both due to natural occurrence and runoff, mostly from agriculture. Salt can hurt crop production, corrode drinking water pipes, and cause other damage.

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