brackishness

In many places, there is a degree of brackishness in the drinking water.

Predominantly lakes, streams and swamps, and can withstand a degree of brackishness.

He was tasting the lake water's very faint brackishness when, in a process that took less than a minute, the sunlight dimmed and was gone.

Where the tides seep up into the river, at the northernmost limits of brackishness, the dwarf mangrove starts.

"The Chesapeake offered a flaccid, tepid flow, a mild brackishness dotted with jellyfish."

She was kneeling amid a heap of white cottons, and the grim brackishness of her room was all around her.

It was not ocean-salty-it had a faint taste that could be a touch of brackishness, but it was clearly sweet enough for human consumption.

The Hudson River adds a fresher, non-tidal inflow from the north, although the tide and brackishness extend well up river.

On the basis of projections from this information, the main parameters affecting water quality in Bijapur can be expected to be brackishness (salinity) and hardness (PH).

Pfiesteria (pronounced FEE-steer-EE-ah), which has been found in the Chesapeake Bay area and North Carolina, seems to prefer slow-moving water that is midway in brackishness between the oceans' salinity and fresh water.

The air was cloying with an indescribable odor of ferns, crushed leaves, bruised and trodden petals and stalks, and, above all else, the peculiar brackishness given off by age-old paving stones saturated repeatedly with water all day long without ever having time to dry off.

And I suppose we'll have to prefer the familiar decentralization that Mr. Yeltsin seeks to an unfamiliar decentraling But if you don't like the colorization of old movies, complain instead about coloring ; if you can't get your mouth fixed for needless extensions of brackishness, say desalting .