Salt-affected is a general term for saline, saline-sodic and sodic soils and the term brackish is mostly used for waters having hazardous levels of EC, SAR and/or RSC. Salient properties under each of the categories are shown in Table 1 for soil and in Table 2 for water proposed by different agencies. A detailed discussion on water quality for irrigation is given by Ayers and Westcot (1985) and Rhoades and Loveday (1990) under different situations of the world.
Abdul Ghafoor, Manzoor Qadir, Riaz Hussain Qurcshi. (1991) Using brackish water on normal and salt-affected soils in Pakistan: A review, , Volume 28, Issue 3.
