Effect of Magnetic Water Supplied to Trickle Source on the Water Movement and Moisture Content Distribution in Soil

Abstract

Many new studies suggest into the possibility of obtaining positive results when exposing the water to the magnetic field of the particular iceberg, where this lead to change some properties of the water, and that the main objective for the design of systems of drip irrigation is to reduce the losses water that occur as a result of deep penetration or surface runoff. The objective of this research is to study the effect of treatment magnetism on the movement of water and the distribution of moisture in the soil, where this study included a 17 tests using three rates of addition of water (1.8, 2.4, 3.0) cm3/min/cm and four intensities of magnetic water treatment (500, 1000, 1500, 2000), in addition to the use of normal salty water and salty water treated magnetically. The results show that the wetting front of water treated magnetically, whether sweet or salty, progressing faster through the soil than the wetting front of normal water (without treatment) at all adding rates of water, where the increasing percent in the size of the wetted area of soil when using the magnetically treated water with intensity of 2000 gauss is 12 % and 18 % and 15.3 % for adding rates 1.8 and 2.4 and 3.0 cm3/min /cm , respectively, also, the moisture content of the soil as well as the proliferation and homogeneity was higher in the case of the using magnetically treated water.