salination

noun3

1. •
   The increase of salt content in soil.

   • Such extension of control diminishes disturbances of the peace, stabilises and thus promotes agricultural industry, and puts a check on the exhaustion and salination of the soil. — 1929
2. •
   The increase of salt content in water.

   • It is evident […] that we ought to find every degree of salination of salt lakes. — 1884
3. •
   A treatment with a salt solution.