[permaculture-oceania] ORMUS and soil building

[Geoff Lawton]

Hi Folks
                I am writing in response to the ORMUS and soil  
building message which mentions using Dead Sea Salts and I am sitting  
just 2 kilometres from the Dead Sea in fact from the roof of the  
house I can see it.

It quotes:

The treated water is left overnight to settle. Then the top water is
syphoned off the precipitate. The precipitate is then washed with fresh
water (to remove the salt and the caustic soda), this is then settled,
syphon off, wash, etc. Usually, three washes with fresh water is  
enough to
get rid of any salt taste and the high ph.

In a landscape that is desperately short of non salty water what is  
called locally sweet water, I would like to know how much sweet water  
is needed to produce what volume of ORMUS and how much land area that  
can benefit?

I need to assess the benefits in relation to sweet water use and the  
salt water creation in a landscape that is already very salt effected.

Thank you for you efforts informing us of this system I am very  
interested in the possibilities.

Salaam Geoff and Nadia Lawton