brackish water

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McNulty believes heavy rainfall over the weekend and brackish water conditions could have created a "perfect storm environment" for Sunday's attack.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2026

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

But soon after the scientists — of the trained, in-training and citizen variety — shimmied large nets that functioned as sieves into the brackish water, gleeful cries began to ring out.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025

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

The train flew over its pylons, curving toward the center of the trade nexus, speeding over brackish water, bright with leaked waste oil and scrap trash and the stink of chemicals.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi