{"id":13341,"date":"2015-10-13T07:46:28","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T12:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13341"},"modified":"2015-10-13T07:46:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T12:46:28","slug":"healthy-soils-reduce-water-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13341","title":{"rendered":"Healthy Soils Reduce Water Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Healthy Soils Reduce Water Pollution<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
Absorbent soils yields big benefits for air and water.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Photo \u00a9 Brett Walton \/ Circle of Blue<\/div>\n
The rainfall simulator demonstrates the soil\u2019s capacity to store and filter water. When heavy rain strikes bare fields and construction sites, the two soil samples in the middle, dirty water flows into rivers and streams.\u00a0Click image to enlarge.<\/em><\/div>\n

On a bright October morning in a hotel parking lot, Greg Scott turns on the rainfall simulator.<\/p>\n

The machine\u2019s swiveling nozzle sprays fat drops on five soil samples held in trays a few feet below. Some soil is bare; other samples are planted with prairie grass, wheat, and other field crops. Within minutes dirty, sediment-saturated water begins flowing off the plots that are not anchored by vegetation. In the other trays, the drops soak into the ground. The little water that does run off the planted trays is much cleaner, the color of green tea. The lesson of the artificial cloudburst is clear: neglect the soil and water will suffer.<\/p>\n

A soil scientist with the Oklahoma Conservation Commission and a cattle rancher, Scott uses the contraption, hauled like a magician\u2019s prop out of a trailer and onto the asphalt lot, to demonstrate how biologically diverse, untilled soils that are rich in organic matter can help solve agriculture\u2019s twin challenges of water pollution and water scarcity.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe have accepted for years that the dirty water was normal, and we\u2019ve been putting up with that loss.\u201d
\n\u2013Greg Scott, soil scientist
\nOklahoma Conservation Commission<\/p><\/div>\n

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Soil is having a moment. Several books in recent years \u2014 including\u00a0Dirt<\/em>\u00a0by David Montgomery and\u00a0The Soil Will Save Us<\/em>\u00a0by Kristin Ohlson \u2014 have cast the Earth\u2019s skin in a starring role in the story of human progress and decline.<\/p>\n

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