brackishness

But over time it became clear that the new city’s brackishness was a problem.

These consist partly of marine and partly of freshwater species; but they are few in number, the brackishness of the water appearing to be very unfavorable to the development of testacea.

At first the brackishness in the water repelled him; but almost at once he found himself accepting it with avidity.

The Italian wines and fruits differ no more from our own at the present day than the fruits before the deluge differed from those produced amid that brackishness and foulness made by the sea.

He walked some distance by this stream, in order to get some water which might be free from brackishness, and then, with very little trouble, he crossed it.