Salination
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
noun.
The act of washing with or soaking in salt liquor.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
noun.
The act of washing with salt water.
Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
noun.
A treatment with a
salt
solution
.
noun.
The increase of
salt
content
in
soil
.
Word Usage
"Furthermore, the use of poor quality underground water for irri - gation is expected to cause long term salination of lands and will severely affect crop yields within 5-12 years, depending on the drainage capacity of such lands."