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"brackish" Definitions
  1. (of water) containing salt and tasting of it in an unpleasant way

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"This is kind of brackish territory here," Mr. Hovater said.
Vibrio bacteria flourish in the brackish estuaries where shellfish grow.
Another is a low morass of pink lumps and brackish water.
Eventually, sunbeams started refracting from the brackish waters of the Hudson River.
This can make some of the fresh water slightly salty, or brackish.
At a brackish inlet of the Harlem River, Skaife spotted a kestrel.
The bacteria reside in seafood and brackish (mixed fresh and salt) water.
Even the rain turned brackish, sending panicked farmers scrambling to rescue crops.
These creatures prefer brackish water like you'd find in a mangrove swamp.
The worst-run teams return year after year to this brackish well.
The stuff that comes out of Gazan taps is already brackish and salty.
The Vibrio vulnificus species of bacteria thrives in warm salty or brackish water.
The clean smell of animal sweat, the smell of earth, garlic, brackish water.
Manhattan was surrounded by water, of course, but it was brackish and undrinkable.
Copeland was infected by Aeromonas hydrophila, a bacterium found in fresh or brackish water.
Tap water is equally scarce and when it is available it is brackish and polluted.
She marveled at a black swallowtail butterfly and an endangered American crocodile in brackish water.
It likely was the top predator in its brackish estuary ecosystem during the Devonian Period.
The brackish water would make for a balanced flavor: not too salty, nor too sweet.
It is primarily coastal, favoring brackish waters along the Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas.
The swim takes place in the brackish water of the tidal bay (the country's largest estuary).
Texas, meanwhile, now has 49 municipal desal plants that process brackish water, both surface and subsurface.
A barefoot man trudges across acres of mud; a turtle bobs up out of brackish water.
They prefer the brackish water of estuaries, where they are threatened by fishing and water-polluting factories.
The vast expanse of stagnant, brackish water trapped behind the dyke hardly speaks of a greener future.
It also collects rainwater, and it can desalinate and purify the brackish river water if need be.
San Antonio currently is building what will be the largest brackish water desal plant in the country.
It turns out the brackish water of the Hudson River—after a safe landing—works just fine.
It can also infect the skin if an open wound is exposed to brackish water or saltwater.
The property sits at the head of the tide—meaning everything upstream is freshwater and downstream is brackish.
"No wake" signs warn cars to slow to a crawl so the brackish water does not inundate lawns.
The bacteria thrives on a perfect brackish mix of salt and fresh waters, around blood temperature or higher.
The town, which is set on three ridges separated by marshland and brackish creeks, occupies roughly a square mile.
Some delta farmers have responded by switching from rice farming to aquaculture: shrimp, in particular, thrive in brackish water.
There are large puddles representing Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Borgne, which are not really lakes but, rather, brackish lagoons.
Bull sharks present a particular threat due to the fact that they're not averse to fresh or brackish water.
Besides being brackish, Venice's water is also highly polluted, since sewage water continues to be dumped in the canals.
Seawater and brackish waters — where salt and fresh water mix — in coastal areas tend to lead to the most cases.
The solids in brackish water are one-tenth the amount in ocean water, and that makes the process much cheaper.
I take the button-size white pill dutifully with endless Dixie cups of brackish fountain water from the nurses' station.
We had the whole of that immensity — 18,000 acres of scattered islands, brackish waterways and shadow-shrouded wetlands — to ourselves.
They are also marine animals, whereas manatees will enjoy rivers and brackish water, and eat a wider variety of foods.
An on-site treatment plant desalinates brackish seawater, a greenhouse supplies the kitchen and all fish is bought from locals.
Sure enough, the paired downs all followed suit: BLACKISH/BRACKISH, MOLASSES/MORASSES and my favorite, GO TOPLESS/GO TO PRESS.
For the most part, polluted or brackish water is treated in one of three ways: membrane filtration, electrodialysis, or capacitive deionization.
The ghostly image of a girl floats beneath the brackish waters of a public pond, her Victorian nightie floating around her.
There are some 12 different species of Vibrio living in salt or brackish water that oysters might come into contact with.
Sherman Island, and its levees, keep the brackish Bay water out of what's sent south by the California State Water Project.
An Appraisal When you think of Steely Dan, you probably hear Donald Fagen's brackish snarl in the front of your mind.
Although the harbor and East and Hudson rivers flowed around the city, their water was too salty or brackish to drink.
Vibrio infections occur when someone eats raw or undercooked seafood or when an open wound becomes wet with seawater or brackish water.
Vibrio infections occur when someone eats raw or undercooked seafood or when an open wound is exposed to seawater or brackish water.
Without them, fields would be flooded by brackish sea water, making the soil saline and unfit to grow staple crops or vegetables.
Meanwhile, big agribusinesses strangle the region's family farms, leaving behind a brackish residue of shame — the shame of being poor and white.
The neighborhood is a mixture of Bahamian, Haitian, Dominican, and Cuban, and is bordered by the Little River, a brackish, semi-polluted canal.
People should just make sure they're not taking excess risks and watch for any wound issues after going in salty or brackish water.
Usually, rivers are fresh water and become brackish (a mixture of salt and fresh) as they get closer to open oceans and gulfs.
They raced in a world series event in New York last month in the brackish water of the Hudson River off lower Manhattan.
As the shoreline has crept closer, fresh water wells have turned brackish, and coconut trees have been uprooted and fallen into the ocean.
Like mouthfuls of bland, brackish jelly, or the sweat off coins from deep pockets, or the fermented milk of a mythical sea creature.
But take a walk down the Embarcadero on the right day, and you can find yourself up to your ankles in brackish Bay water.
It also encourages swimmers with open wounds to avoid salt water or brackish water, a mixture of fresh and salt, to avoid skin infections.
But over the past decade the country has invested heavily in desalination plants and projects that allow it to reclaim effluents and brackish water.
Many people in Freeport have electricity and brackish, salty water from their taps that they can bathe with, but officials warn against drinking it.
This alone struck Mr DePalma as odd since Hell Creek is not known for the preservation of brackish ecosystems where such animals could mingle.
But climate change has intensified cyclones and pushed tides higher, flooding homes and roads, turning well water brackish, and eroding Indigenous Australians' sacred sites.
The dropped-ceiling entrance hall is enameled in a brackish blue, illuminated by Achille Castiglioni's '60s-era Taraxacum fixture, a cluster of glass bubbles.
Forecasts call for the city, which abuts the Mississippi River and a brackish estuary, to receive at least several inches (cm) of rain from Nate.
Vibrio bacteria can also cause life-threatening contamination if someone eats raw or undercooked seafood or gets a wound wet with seawater or brackish water.
He had emergency surgery and doctors found he had an infection with Vibrio vulnificus, a germ found in warm oceans or brackish waters, reported Drs.
They held up well to New York City's brackish puddles without letting the water seep in, but they have great airflow despite the solid insulation.
Despite the toxic military interlude, much living goes on out there, from sea sponges to swamp rabbits, amid brackish lagoons, pine flats and reedy wetlands.
For every barrel of crude, drillers generate up to six barrels of brackish water containing chemicals used to release oil and gas from shale rock.
Beginning in absolute darkness, the film gives us a sound before it gives us a visual: what seems to be a brackish, partly ominous drum beat.
A Florida man contracted a flesh-eating bacteria called vibrio without ever coming into contact with the warm, brackish water where it typically lives, officials say.
Known as the "roof of the world," this plateau features an average elevation exceeding 14,800 feet, an expansive arid steppe, mountain ranges, and large brackish lakes.
After watching a freshwater wetland get hosed down with brine, Mazzei and I drive south to a brackish site, where the same treatment is being applied.
Because of the cost of seawater processing and the impacts on the ocean, much of the recent desalination growth has involved the use of brackish water.
N.Y.C. Nature Muskrats are equally at home in freshwater ponds or brackish bays, swimming their way through at least four of New York City's five boroughs.
But it also reduces the salinity of surrounding waters, endangering oysters, which can tolerate brackish water but can die if the salt content is too low.
The dancers moved through a steep amphitheater before entering the pool, traversing its entirety with gracefully humorous choreography, assiduously avoiding a brackish puddle at one end.
But nutrients flowing to the ocean from freshwater are more likely to be consumed by algae in brackish water, rather than making it to the sea.
During 37 dialogue-free minutes we meet 10 fishermen, all half-naked and all of darker skin tones, who hunt large fish in the brackish water.
Membrane filtration uses ultrafine porous materials to strain pollutants and microorganisms from water, whereas electrodialysis and capacitive deionization remove salt from brackish water using an electric current.
Some scientists, however, argue that a bull shark could have been responsible, since those sharks prefer brackish water habitats like Matawan Creek more than great whites do.
They had bladelike teeth and lived in habitats that ranged from woodlands with streams to river deltas, occasionally feeding in the brackish waters of shallow equatorial coasts.
Currently, desalination is largely limited to more affluent countries, especially those with ample fossil fuels and access to seawater (although brackish water inland can be desalinated, too).
Yards away from the dock, the incinerated hulls of pontoons breached the brackish water, where they sat until they were removed by investigators later in the day.
As a tidal inlet, the waterway is comprised of a brackish mix of fresh and saltwater, which was thought to have been an automatic blockade for sharks.
Consuming raw or undercooked seafood or exposing a wound to seawater or brackish water is the cause of these infections, though not all would lead to necrotizing fasciitis.
The brackish mix of fresh and salt water in Calcasieu Lake, like much of the Southeast Louisiana coast, has created historically a rare paradise for oysters to thrive.
The one in front tastes brackish, this one for drinking is a bit sweet, the one at the back is a bit salty and usually used as medicine.
But "Infections can also occur with exposure of open wounds to contaminated salt or brackish water; however, this represents an uncommon mechanism of infection," according to the report.
At least three types of dinosaurs left the footprints that amount to a dinosaur parade ground - remnants of a muddy surface on the edge of a brackish lagoon.
If they found salamander larvae in the brackish water, among the tufts of razor-edged sawgrass, it won't mean that the species has survived the weather disruptions undamaged.
These trees like salty and brackish waters and can tolerate the salt because their roots have a special system that filters seawater, according to the Global Mangrove Alliance.
Having a wound that is exposed to brackish water where these bacteria live is one way to get an infection; eating contaminated shellfish -- "oysters, primarily" -- is another, he said.
Brine from desalination plants that tap brackish lakes, aquifers or rivers far inland is harder to treat than brine from coastal plants that can be piped into the seas.
WHEN Roosevelt Falgout was a boy, the brackish water that now laps within a few feet of his three-room cabin at Isle de Jean Charles was miles off.
This seems too hard a stance for someone whose life was forever changed by an immediate family member's mental illness, but it also speaks to Lucious's brackish, impulsive nature.
Some cities in Florida already have issues with saltwater flooding streets during some high tides, and saltwater intrusion into brackish water areas and freshwater areas has threatened marine life.
To watch PROTOTYPE progress is like seeing a photograph being emulsed in brackish water, slowly becoming soggy, decaying, and then its melted bits swirled about with the surrounding muck.
It forms when the brackish water is inundated with freshwater carrying nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, and appears as foam, scum or mats on the surface of water.
It forms when the brackish water is inundated with freshwater carrying nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorus, and appears as foam, scum or mats on the surface of water.
Ever since the last of the brackish water slithered out of the Canarsie Tunnel in the aftermath of 2012's Superstorm Sandy, New Yorkers have been bracing for the pain.
The parched sea, now shrunk to around 10 percent of its original surface area, is 95 feet shallower and so brackish that it no longer supports fish or much life.
Some biologists have argued that a bull shark is the most likely candidate for the attacks, given that this species has no trouble hanging out in fresh or brackish water.
The algae can be present in fresh, salt, or mixed (brackish) water, and their population can rapidly explode in "blooms" when there is the right combination of nutrients and warmer water.
Most people contract the infection by consuming raw oysters and other shellfish harboring the bacteria, or when open wounds are exposed to brackish or salt water where the bacteria are present.
Mr Nhan mentions the prospect of shifting crops: cultivating rice and shrimp in the brackish lowlands, fruit and vegetables in the centre and high-value export rice in the upper delta.
Cajun Encounters will pick you up at your hotel and shuttle you to the swamp, where you will traverse brackish channels by boat in search of snakes, alligators and wild boars.
The rivers moved them rapidly along, from six to 10 miles per hour, and the young fish reached the brackish waters of the Columbia River estuary in a couple of weeks.
George Smyth, 62, who attributes a skin rash on his arm to exposure to the brackish water, decided that it was worth driving through the muck to keep his doctor's appointment.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), eating raw seafood or exposing open wounds to brackish or salt water can increase a person's risk of contracting the bacterial infection.
According to the Galveston Health Department, the rare flesh-eating bacteria Vibrio vulnificus lives in coastal waters and can cause infection when an open wound is exposed to brackish or salt water.
While the brackish water contained in such an aquifer would need to be desalinized before consumption, it would not require the energy-intensive desalinization currently undertaken in some countries, such as Israel.
"They prefer freshwater lakes and slow-moving rivers and their associated wetlands, but they also can be found in brackish water habitats," wrote Tammy Sapp, spokeswoman for the commission, in an email.
The Florida Wildlife Commission encourages members of the public to never feed alligators and advises to always be aware of the possibility of their presence when in or near brackish or fresh water.
Even Amber, which relies mostly on the alien locomotion of its percussion, has moments like "Yulquen," which uses its brackish synth washes to create an environment as peacefully buoyant as the Dead Sea.
With dread, Gist inspected the brackish drainage ditch next to the car; the water couldn't have been more than three feet deep, but an injured man could roll into that muck and drown.
So the engineers needed to test the conditions required to lift the sand and carry it into the chute with the minimum amount of fresh water spilling into the brackish estuaries and bay.
Horseshoe crabs' copper-rich blood has helped them survive since before the dinosaurs in brackish coastal waters by clotting around endotoxins, the potentially dangerous molecules found in cell walls of bacteria like E. coli.
They prefer freshwater lakes and slow-moving rivers and their associated wetlands, but they can also be found in brackish water habitats, said Tammy Sapp, a spokeswoman for the state fish and wildlife commission.
Each night here on the border, hundreds of Rohingya keep arriving in fleets of wooden boats that float silently across the mouth of the Naf River, the brackish waterway that separates the two countries.
In their paper, Dr. Hogan and his colleagues defined freshwater megafauna as any vertebrate animal that spends an essential part of its life in fresh or brackish water and can weigh over 66 pounds.
The risk of developing a life-threatening infection is very low, but people with cuts or open wounds should take caution when going in brackish, warm water where bacteria like vibrio are more common.
Unable to complete her dissertation on Sappho and dazed after a messy breakup, Lucy agrees to dog-sit for her sister who lives near the beach, hoping the brackish Pacific breeze might enliven her spirits.
These channels have injected seams of saline water deep into the marshes, killing plants which tolerate only fresh or brackish water, such as the marsh and woodland species that once surrounded Isle de Jean Charles.
While the brackish water described in the study, published in Scientific Reports, would need to be desalinized before consumption, it would not require the energy-intensive process currently undertaken in some countries, such as Israel.
As Jennifer Berglund explains for Discover Magazine, like oil on water, the freshwater will floats above a denser layer of saltwater, and where they mix, they'll form a layer of brackish water called the halocline.
There are an estimated 1.3 million alligators in Florida — they live in each of the state's 67 counties and can be found in nearly all its fresh and brackish water bodies — but attacks are rare.
"The land has been disappearing and some of the mangrove forests have collapsed," Sopheap said during an interview on the patio of her wooden home jutting into brackish water where a river flows into the sea.
"There's two different types of risk of coming into contact with it — so people who eat raw or undercooked seafood or people who have wounds that might be exposed to ocean or brackish water," said Wong.
NATURE'S INGENUITY Horseshoe crabs' copper-rich blood has helped them survive since before the dinosaurs in brackish coastal waters by clotting around endotoxins, the potentially dangerous molecules found in cell walls of bacteria like E. coli.
Our guide, Aaron, had an affable, mountain man sensibility, and did a nice job leading our group on a three-hour tour through the patches of spartina, or cordgrass, that grew in the brackish marsh water.
The band remains anonymous, veiled by noms de plume like Transplutonian Afterbirth and Radiating Abyss, but even with such a faceless exterior has struck a serious chord with its brackish, thoroughly uncompromising interpretation of apocalyptic black/death.
For years, starting days after the first batch of cases appeared, United Nations officials did everything to suggest that the outbreak began in the brackish waters of the Artibonite River delta, far away from the peacekeepers' camp.
It spawned a sequel, in 2005, that, while far inferior, offered some equally chilling moments, and a wave of American remakes of Asian horror movies, many of which involved the ghosts of murdered children and brackish water.
The ocean poured into shore towns in southern New Jersey: In Sea Isle City, floodwaters laden with chunks of ice surged down the streets, and in Wildwood the frigid, brackish water submerged cars halfway up to their windows.
The result: Fresh water turned brackish, which turned to salt water, killing the marshes and eroding the land, creating more areas of open water that encroached farther and farther inland, allowing even more salt water to flow in.
In Brooklyn and Queens, a glacial aquifer permeates through beds of sandy Gardiners clay, the groundwater infused with metal-corroding salt from the ocean on one side and the brackish estuary of the East River on the other.
These brackish waters are the cradle of Vibrio cholerae, a bacterium that clings to human intestines and emits a toxin so virulent that the body will pour all of its fluids into the gut to flush it out.
Dr. Stephen Spann, dean of the University of Houston College of Medicine, said that having a wound exposed to brackish water where these bacteria live is one way to get an infection; eating contaminated shellfish -- "oysters, primarily" -- is another.
The humanitarian situation was "dire", with food stockpiles dwindling and the price of staples spiraling, boreholes drying up or turning brackish from over-use and camps and emergency sites to the south and east reaching maximum capacity, it said.
Vigneron, who was runner up on the second season of Top Chef and has appeared on Top Chef: All Stars among a number other cooking shows, wore a blue custom Michael Andrews tuxedo with a bow tie by Brackish.
They tell stories with villains: that George Soros is sponsoring an immigrant invasion, or that, somewhere in the brackish backwash of the 1960s, Frances Fox Piven and Bill Ayers created Barack Obama as a sort of socialist Manchurian Candidate.
As they work to find common ground, lawmakers and policymakers should remember the example set by Harvey's heroes: the nameless volunteers who searched through brackish waters to rescue victims, manned overcrowded shelters and opened their doors to the displaced.
When Hurricane Katrina walloped New Orleans in 2005, the flood that followed pushed putrid, brackish water into the 6-foot raised basement of the National Votive Shrine of Our Lady of Prompt Succor in the city's Uptown section, Harris said.
"They were asking me if I was around any brackish water or if I went in a lake or river and I was nowhere near any of those — I was just living my normal life here at home," Reyes says.
Lively attended the Lionsgate presentation at CinemaCon in a midnight blue double-breasted blazer over a white collared shirt, complete with an orange pattern bow tie from Charleston-based brand Brackish, for a look that gives us total Gossip Girl flashbacks.
They said a 70-year-old man with a chronic illness died of vibrio infection over the weekend, and warned elderly people and those with chronic illnesses such as diabetes or HIV to avoid contact with the sea or brackish water.
N.Y.C. Nature With the jutting jaw of a mob kingpin and the pinstripes of a Wall Street executive, striped bass swim through the brackish waters of New York Harbor like old-school New Yorkers — as if they own the place.
She links the taste of her perfectly brewed cup to the desalination plant that has brought potable water to the doorsteps of islanders, and almost erased the memory of the brackish tea she hurriedly swallowed down until a decade ago.
CAIRU, Brazil (Reuters) - Fishermen like Jose da Cruz have made their living for decades hunting for crabs among Brazil's vast coastal mangrove forests, dense thickets of twisted plants in deep black mud that grow where fresh-water rivers meet the brackish Atlantic Ocean.
The CDC recommends staying out of both salt and brackish water (the latter is a mix of fresh and salt water) if one has opens cuts or wounds and to use waterproof bandages if there is a possibility contact could be made.
According to El Paso Water's hydrologists, under the 10 million acre feet of fresh water in the Hueco Bolson aquifer it relies on, there is an additional 30 million acre feet of brackish water that can be treated and used as drinking water.
The cesium levels in the brackish groundwater—a combination of fresh water and salt water—was ten times higher than what's currently being detected in the waters swirling around Fukushima's harbor, while cesium was tracked in the sand up to a depth of three feet.
New Orleans's Lake Pontchartrain—which is actually an estuary—could be among the brackish bodies of water near the coast that will become saltier as sea levels rise and ocean water intrudes into the ecosystem, likely leading to a change in the flora and fauna.
Usually idyllic beaches, waterways and estuaries near the massive, biodiverse ecosystem along central Florida's Atlantic coast are littered with scores of dead, rotting fish; an estimated hundreds of thousands of them are floating belly up in brackish, polluted water as far as the eye can see.
Kerala is a part of India, but it very much feels like a completely different country, with lush green tropics filled with backwater brackish lagoons running in parallel to the Arabian Sea, near 100% literacy rates and a focus on health that has become the envy of the world.
As the late-August primary approached, the polls showed that Florida Democrats were poised to dip into the same brackish well again by nominating Gwen Graham, a centrist white member of Congress whose father, Bob Graham, had been governor and then U.S. senator from the late 1970s to 2005.
Credit...Andrew Seng for The New York Times SHINNECOCK NATION, Southampton, N.Y. — A maritime people who once spanned a large swath of the eastern Long Island shore, the Shinnecock Indians have been hemmed into a 1.5-square-mile patch of land on the edge of a brackish bay.
A barrage built by the state government divides the lake's 36,000 hectares (88,2000 acres) in two: the northern part has brackish water all year round, while the southern half is fed with fresh water from rivers and seawater is shut out from December to April, allowing rice to be grown.
Sleep hygiene apps ensure that even our non-waking moments are categorised and subject to analytic scrutiny, and so-called 'Sentiment Analysis' is being applied to tweets, texts, and office e-mails to try and boil down our unique constellation of thoughts and emotions into a brackish stew of wants and service needs.
Arizona, perpetually short on water and facing a Colorado River supply shortage, is looking at both a seawater desal plant in partnership with Mexico—which has the ocean access that the state lacks—and at plants that can treat the 600 million acre-feet of brackish water deposits the state estimates it has.

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