drought killing everyone's plants

[dragonlady]

hi all, out here in the boonies, we've been on water restrictions for 6/8 months cause our town supply is a series of man-made lakes on the Darling river which itself is drying up fast(cause of cotton growing I reckon) Because of massive salinity in the water thats left,

all the local growers crops have died and ours are flat out producing 1-2 oz per 5 foot plant ..the ones that didn't keel over that is!

Does anyone know of a cheap home made filtering setup...things are getting desperate round here

Edited April 4, 2003 by dragonlady

[Ferre]

I would run it through a charcoal filter system, I would check out what there's on the marked at aquarium shops for a relatively cheap system.

 

hope this is of any help.

[boe~pimp]

desalinisation is a costly process, which is why we don't process seawater for drinking. i would imagine there would be a few cost effective ways of doing it but i'm unaware of any. try searching around on the internet, use a search engine like Google. The internet is a far broader bank of knowledge than any library .. just take this site for an example hehe.

 

Best of luck, and if you do find an effective method, i'm sure alot of people here wouldn't mind having a peek, i for one would be intrested & might do a quick search a bit later when i get some time.

[Guest weekprik]

what about those water holding crystals??