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...hat would happen if we irrigate the degraded land using the desalinated saline water in Minqin Oasis, Gansu Province, China? Can we prevent the disappearing of Minqin Qasis?* * * *Background:* *1. **The Minqin Oasis is surrounded by two deserts, Badain Jaran Desert and Tengger Desert. * *2. **Water is the root of ecological deterioration of Minqin. On the hand, severe water scarcity (a, water supply from Hongyashan Reservoir reduced from 460M tons at 1950s to less than 100M tons now; b, more than 5 billion tons groundwater over extracted totally, the groundwater le...