brackish

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The bacterium can also live in the environment in brackish rivers and coastal waters.
這種桿菌還可在咸水河流和海岸水域的環(huán)境中生存。
Crops that could be maintained with brine or brackish water, such as industrial wastewater or seawater, would help preserve freshwater supplies.
這樣作物也許就可能在諸如工業(yè)廢水或海水等鹽堿或咸水的水質中生存，從而助于保護淡水供給。
Israel extracts about 65% of the upper Jordan, leaving the occupied West Bank dependent on a brackish trickle and a mountain aquifer, access to which Israel also controls.
以色列提取出約旦河上游約65%的水源，使供水中的約旦河西岸依賴于一條咸水細流和山脈地下蓄水層，其入口仍為以色列控制。
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Even the smallest daily activity, like brushing one's teeth, requires a trip to the tank, where people pay a large portion of their meager salaries for containers of cloudy,brackish water.
Further east we reach brackish water.

In federal water desalination policy, why the politically preferred brackish groundwater desalination instead of seawater?
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Turtle kidneys have difficulty processing salt water, so for an animal that lives in a brackish environment potable water is always scarce.
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