And how fitting for a shellfish shop on Ocean Street: Those fuzzy spatial boundaries evoke salty water flowing into fresh – an intermixing that generates the brackish environment that allows oysters to thrive.

Source: https://www.pressherald.com/2023/08/13/dine-out-maine-delicious-seafood-for-now-and-delicious-seafood-for-later-at-sopo-seafood-raw-bar-market/

Historically, manatees are an indicator of the islands’ intact environment due to their liking of fresh and brackish water habitats and abundant sea grass beds for grazing grounds surrounding the Virgin Islands coastal ecosystem.

Source: https://stjohntradewinds.com/open-forum-the-importance-of-guts-in-the-virgin-islands-part-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=open-forum-the-importance-of-guts-in-the-virgin-islands-part-2

It also has a mobile desalination plant for treating brackish water in the Noyo River and plans to build reservoirs.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/07/california-desalination-buoys-salt-water/674647/?utm_source=feed

Some plants can tolerate more brackish water.

Source: https://www.heraldnet.com/news/a-delta-for-the-future-scientists-try-to-save-salmon-at-stillys-mouth/

They can be used for low-salinity brackish water desalination, wastewater treatment, says CSMCRI.

Source: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/business-tech/custom-made-nano-filter/article66741859.ece

Vibrio vulnificus — a bacteria that got its moniker as a flesh-eater from its ability to kill healthy tissue around a wound — flourishes in brackish floodwaters that can linger after a hurricane’s storm surge is long gone.

Source: https://www.courant.com/2023/11/19/researchers-find-high-counts-of-flesh-eating-bacteria-in-gulf-waters-after-ian/

What followed that night in early January was the stuff of nightmares: a fearful scramble through pelting rain; a flooded car engine that stopped cold; a frantic escape on foot through dark, brackish water.

Source: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-02-14/planada-california-january-storms-rain-flooding-recovery

What was once an extensive marshes network has shrunk today to a few isolated ponds of stagnating brackish water, stinking of dead fish and highly polluted, sitting amid large swatches of desert landscape.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/29/death-in-the-marshes-environmental-calamity-hits-iraqs-unique-wetlands