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Oman's Salt Water Problem
How the use of motorised pumps is making groundwater more salty in Oman
The oil boom in Oman radically changed agriculture but consequences include increasing salinity of groundwater. Plus, a soil bacterium that produces vanillin, the food flavouring more unusally found in vanilla pods. And olive oil subsidies in the EU are now going to be based on the number of trees, not the amount of oil produced.
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Water And The World—成人论坛 World Service Archive
From the science to religion, the importance of water in our lives and how we use it
