Although irrigation improves crop production in the long term it can irreparably damage cropland when
A) critical nutrients are leeched from the soil in irrigation water.
B) irrigation water disperses pathogen, like Salmonella, onto the crop.
C) salts accumulate after the irrigation water evaporates.
D) irrigation water washes away the topsoil.
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