brackish water
Example Sentences
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The surface is now home to scavengers, soldiers, mutants, and ghouls, all doing their best to survive on spoiled food, brackish water, and whatever’s left in long-abandoned vending machines.
From Salon • May 12, 2025
Moreover, as I’ve written before, diverting too much freshwater before it gets to the delta to serve downstream farms and urban users allows more brackish water to infiltrate deeper into the delta.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2025
"Right where the ship went down just inland, there's a huge lagoon of brackish water and it houses all sort of animals. Coconut crabs, everything. They'll all be affected."
From BBC • Oct. 10, 2024
When the pulse of sludge-choked freshwater reached the Dnipro-Bug Estuary, it hammered fish species adapted to brackish water.
From Science Magazine • Jan. 3, 2024
We would stand or squat in these buckets, soaping ourselves with the brackish water, rinsing off the dust from the day.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
