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salt water

noun as in water containing salt

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Exposure to salt water can also lead to battery failure and potentially start a fire.

That’s necessary to repel salt water and make delta water safe for drinking and irrigation.

"Practically nothing, other than microorganisms that feed on fuel oil and break it up, can live in that sort of environment, even in salt water. The removal of 200,000–500,000 tonnes, at least, of contaminated soil too will not go without consequences, and will certainly lead to a reshaping of the coast," he said.

From BBC

I presume that if they deign to help out us undeserving Americans, we'll all be out raking the forests and watching helplessly as they demand that we uselessly seed clouds when there is 5% humidity And they'll turn that big valve on to release the 2% of water that's not already diverted to the farmers and watch the Sacramento delta turn to salt water and destroy the entire ecosystem and the salmon fisheries.

From Salon

Salt water contaminated many sources of fresh water and destroyed large tracts of arable land.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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