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Helen Deborah Vecht writes:
| Thus spake (Nick Maclaren)
|
| Sowing fields with salt would not harm ones in the UK for more
| than a season. In the near east, there are many places where
| the rainfall is never enough to drain into the groundwater, and
| there salt accumulates. In the UK, that is not so by a large
| margin.
|
| And there was I thinking Cambridge had similar overall rainfall to
| Jerusalem...

See the climate FAQ :-)

Yes, it does, but it has a rather lower evaporation.


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Nick Maclaren,
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