{"id":157802,"date":"2014-09-23T19:10:27","date_gmt":"2014-09-23T22:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=157802"},"modified":"2014-10-23T19:16:16","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T21:16:16","slug":"brackish-water-tilapia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/brackish-water-tilapia\/","title":{"rendered":"Brackish-water tilapia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_157803\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-157803\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Tecno_Foto4.jpg\" alt=\"Fish farming tank near city of Mossor\u00f3\" width=\"290\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Tecno_Foto4.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Tecno_Foto4-120x90.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Tecno_Foto4-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">NILDO DA SILVA DIAS\/UFERSA<\/span>Fish farming tank near city of Mossor\u00f3<span class=\"media-credits\">NILDO DA SILVA DIAS\/UFERSA<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Exploiting saltwater&#8217;s potential for plant growing and fish farming in the area near Mossor\u00f3, a city in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, is the goal of a project coordinated by Professor Nildo da Silva Dias at the Environmental and Technological Sciences Department of the Federal Rural University of the Semiarid Region (Ufersa). Dias was awarded the 4<sup>th<\/sup> Fecomercio Sustainability Award in the Academy-Professor category, announced in late August 2014. \u201cThe project consists of integrated actions to sustainably use saline wastewater from rural communities and stimulate fish farming as a means of income,\u201d says Dias, who is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the USDA Salinity Laboratory in California. In most rural communities in the Mossor\u00f3 region, potable water is only available by drilling artesian wells. The problem is that water from these wells is brackish due to contact with crystalline bedrock. To make it fit to drink, the water undergoes a desalination process that generates what is known as saline wastewater, which is highly pollutant.<br \/>\n\u201cDesalination produces 50% water and 50% saline wastewater, which ends up being released into the soil or rivers,\u201d Dias explains. Initiatives implemented since 2009 have included using this wastewater to raise tilapia, a fish species that tolerates high salinity. Afterward, the effluent from the fish farms, which is rich in organic matter, is used to irrigate saplings of plant species from the Caatinga, as well as vegetables and forage plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Project exploits saltwater&#8217;s potential for plant growing and fish farming","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[209],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-157802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technoscience","tag-biology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157802"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=157802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}