Also, carrying electrical charge means that salt water flooding puts people at risk for electrical shocks. The Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue Department, no stranger to hurricane flooding, ...

There have been attempts and studies before. A British company created an irrigation system that relied on salt water, and a Dutch farmer experimented with degrees of salinity on his row crops in 2014 ...

Gritzer’s experiments showed that water at 1/2 percent to 2 percent salinity (as measured by weight of the salt divided by the weight of the water) was acceptable, equating to 3/4 teaspoon to 1 ...

March 12, 2009 In 1748 the monk/physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet exploded a wine-filled pig's bladder when he submerged it in a trough of water (What did he think would happen?). The resulting ...