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The bacterium can also live in the environment in brackish rivers and coastal waters.
这种杆菌还可在咸水河流和海岸水域的环境中生存。
Crops that could be maintained with brine or brackish water, such as industrial wastewater or seawater, would help preserve freshwater supplies.
这样作物也许就可能在诸如工业废水或海水等盐碱或咸水的水质中生存，从而助于保护淡水供给。
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.
以色列提取出约旦河上游约65%的水源，使供水中的约旦河西岸依赖于一条咸水细流和山脉地下蓄水层，其入口仍为以色列控制。
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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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