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] Hi my name is Cindy and i am in stage 2 rivers.Last week we tasted different kinds of water.Firstly i thought the sea water was the saltiest but at the end the Murray river was.The Murray River is the saltiest .Boy can you imagine how salty it was it was just 1 litre of the Murray River .The sea water was the second saltiest but still it was salty.The plant can't grow well in this salty water. the plant only takes the water it needs and leaves the extra salt from the water in the soil. The excess water and salt go to the botom layer of the soil layers and then they eventually make their way back up to the surface and run into out creeks, rivers and waterways. This water is very high in salt content and makes our rivers even more salty.

__ Salinity __ Salinity affects plants to not grow. We found this out when we planted seeds in two cups; one had salt and water and the other one had no salt and water. We placed them in the sun for a few days .The non-salty one GREW A LOT .The salty one didn’t even grow.

__ What I learnt __ The salty one didn’t grow because the plant wouldn’t absorb the salty water. Even if it did it would die. Also the salt will suck up all of the water.