briny

This doesn’t need to come at the expense of the environment; companies are pioneering a method to extract the mineral from underground briny water and inject the water back into the ground in a closed loop, yielding the cleanest, greenest lithium on the planet.

Outside, the briny tang of windswept sea air, the North Sea swirling tempestuously below.

Sea lions, he added, are like “sentinels of the sea,” providing clues about what is affecting the briny deep, such as toxins that sicken them and shifting fish populations that they chase.

Some of it gets in my mouth, filling it with a briny taste.

It's the most fundamental of processes -- the evaporation of water from the surfaces of oceans and lakes, the burning off of fog in the morning sun, and the drying of briny ponds that leaves solid salt behind.