brackish

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Brackish water with a salinity that exceeds normally acceptable standards for municipal, domestic, and irrigation uses but has less salinity than seawater.

DAILY DIGEST, 10/1: Scott river has dried up. Critics say the state should do more to protect its salmon; CA rushes to prepare for massive ‘Kelvin’ wave; DWR completes major rehabilitation of Oroville Dam’s River Valve Outlet System; The Colorado River nears a worrisome threshold. These farmers are worried.; and more …
DAILY DIGEST, 9/14: San Joaquin Valley water vision highlights urgent need for coordinated action; Potter Valley dam comments close Friday as SoCal district keeps fighting to join case; El Niño-born ‘Kelvin waves’ are sneaking towards California; How drought and demand pushed the Colorado River toward crisis; and more …
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DAILY DIGEST, 8/11: CA’s water picture split down the middle, with full reservoirs clashing against a rapidly drying landscape; Charting a path for the San Joaquin Valley; Monitoring salmon from space: How a chance conversation grew into a partnership spanning two hemispheres; El Niño alters marine life in the Pacific; and more …

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