Elsevier

Pedosphere

Volume 20, Issue 1, February 2010, Pages 35-42
Pedosphere

Combined Effects of Water Quality and Furrow Gradient on Runoff and Soil Erosion in North China

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Abstract

Irrigation-induced soil erosion seriously affects the sustainability of irrigated agriculture. The effects of irrigation water quality and furrow gradient on runoff and soil loss were studied under simulated furrow irrigation in laboratory using a soil collected from an experimental station of China Agricultural University, North China. The experimental treatments were different combinations of irrigation water salt concentrations of 5, 10, 20, and 30 mmolc L−1, sodium adsorption ratios (SAR) of 0.5, 5.0, and 10.0 (mmolc L−1)0.5, and furrow gradients of 1%, 3%, and 5%, with distilled water for irrigation at 3 furrow gradients as controls. The experimental data indicated that total runoff amount, sediment concentration in runoff, and total soil loss amount generally decreased with increasing salt concentration in irrigation water but increased with its sodicity and furrow gradient. The effects of water quality and furrow gradient on soil loss were greater than those on runoff, and the increase of furrow gradient decreased the influence of water quality on soil loss. When the salt concentration increased from 5 to 30 mmolc L−1 at SAR of 10.0 (mmolc L−1)0.5, total runoff amount, sediment concentration, and total soil loss amount decreased by 3.89%, 52.1%, and 53.92%, and 10.57%, 38.86%, and 42.03% at the furrow gradients of 1% and 5%, respectively. However, they respectively increased by 3.37%, 45.34%, and 55.36%, and 3.86%, 10.77%, and 13.91% when SAR increased from 0.5 to 10.0 (mmolc L−1)0.5 at the salt concentration of 5 mmolc L−1. Irrigation water quality and furrow gradient should be comprehensively considered in the planning and management of furrow irrigation practices to decrease soil loss and improve water utilization efficiency.

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    Project supported by the State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on Loess Plateau of China (No. 10501-169), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 40635027), the National Hi-Tech Research and Development Program of China (No.2006AA100205), and the Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University of China (No. IRT0657).

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