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salinization

n. 1 The act of salinizing, or the state of being salinized. 2 The addition of salt or brine.

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By 1980, a decade after the High Dam’s completion, salinization and water-logging afflicted between 28 and 50 percent of Egypt’s productive land.

For example, it has been suggested that the Aswan Dam, far from helping Egyptian agriculture, might someday lead to salinization of the land on both banks of the Nile.