the salt and fresh water lakes and rivers because the concentration there is too low. but as rivers transport the water into the oceans the salt accumulates over time along with more released from benson the ocean bottom. as a result one leader of sea water contains about three tablespoons of salt on average. that's one good reason why you really don't want to drink ocean water. but why doesn't the sea continue to get salty or that's probably because some of the dissolved salt is constantly being removed from seawater to form new minerals deep down on the sea bed. when sea water seeps into the shore along the coast it also leaves salt deposits there. the water evaporates into the atmosphere only to fall again as rain. in rivers