Essay Archive - Water Transitions
Water Transitions
Brackish water is a fairly salty mixture of freshwater and sea
water. It is unique in numerous ways and is a life giving ecosystem. To
understand what brackish water is, a background should be known about its
sources.
First of all, there is freshwater. Out of all the water on the
planet, only three percent of it is fresh, and only one fiftieth of one
percent is readily available. Freshwater is not pure in that it contains
minerals and other particles. There are numerous plants and animals that
depend on freshwater for their lives. Humans are one of them. Seventy
percent of the human b....
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