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the ocean and the river arguing, and neither one winning.
means water with more salt than fresh but less than seawater, typically where rivers meet the sea.
from from middle dutch brac, meaning salty, borrowed into english in the 1500s to describe estuary water that tasted wrong for drinking but wasn't quite the sea either.
salinity range0.5 to 30 parts per thousand, roughly
taste testhuman tongue detects it below seawater's saltiness
biological hotspothosts species found nowhere else, like mangroves
human useundrinkable raw, but desalinated in coastal cities worldwide
for instance
baltic sea — one of the largest brackish bodies on earth, fed by many rivers
pichavaram mangroves — india's second largest mangrove forest thrives in brackish creeks
caspian sea — world's largest inland body, brackish from ancient sea remnants