Tourists sit around a bonfire on the Makgadikgadi salt pan in Botswana. (Photo by Yang Mengxi/Xinhua News Agency/Barcroft Media)

Fisherwomen laying barrels with salt in preparation for herring curing, 1937. (Photo by Topical Press Agency)

An aerial view of rock salt collection pool made of tarpaulin, where rock salt is obtained by collecting the natural spring water in the mountains and evaporating the water, in Kozluk District of Batman, Turkiye on August 22, 2022. The production of rock salt, passed down from generation to generation, became the sole source of income for 45 households in the village of Derince, with a population of about 400 of Batman. (Photo by Omer Yasin Ergin/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Route engineer Richard Winter stands in front of a pile of road salt at the Birchanger Depot on November 8, 2011 near Bishop's Stortford, England. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)