River deltas are frequently facing salinity intrusion, thus challenging agricultural production in these areas. One adaption strategy to increasing salinity is shrimp production, which however, heavily relies on antibiotic usage. This study was performed to evaluate the effect of increasing salinity on the dissipation rates of antibiotics in tropical flooded soil systems. For this purpose, paddy top soil from a coastal Vietnamese delta was spiked with selected frequently used antibiotics (sulfadiazine, sulfamethazine, sulfamethoxazole, trimethoprim) and incubated with flood water of different salt concentrations (0, 10, 20 g L −1). Antibiotic concentrations were monitored in water and soil phases over a period of 112 days using liquid chromatography and tandem mass spectrometry. We found that sulfamethazine was the most persistent antibiotic in the flooded soil system (DT 50 = 77 days), followed by sulfadiazine (DT 50 = 53 days), trimethoprim (DT 50 = 3 days) and sulfamethoxazole (DT 50 = 1 days). With the exception of sulfamethoxazole, the apparent distribution coefficient increased significantly (p < 0.05) for all antibiotics in course of the incubation, which indicates an accumulation of antibiotics in soil. On a whole system basis, including soil and water into the assessment, there was no overall salinity effect on the dissipation rates of antibiotics, suggesting that common e-fate models remain valid under varying salinity. Salinity intrusion is a natural phenomenon in coastal ecosystems that becomes particularly relevant in delta regions 1,2. However, synergistic effects with anthropogenic drivers like groundwater overuse, hydro-dam construction, and sea level rise currently exacerbate salinization of deltaic soil and freshwater resources and restrict freshwater related agriculture 2,3. In the Mekong Delta of Vietnam, for instance, salinization has already become a major threat 4. About 1.8 million ha of land are affected by increasing salinity 5 , and the El Niño dry season 2015-2016 damaged up to 240,000 ha of paddy rice fields 6. One approach to adapt to this changing environment is by shifting the freshwater land use systems, like paddy rice, to brackish or saltwater compatible agriculture, such as shrimp production 7. Intensive shrimp production, however, frequently goes along with heavy use of antibiotics 8 , which disseminate in the environment. Accordingly, in shrimp ponds, single substances have already been detected in concentrations of up to 0.82 g kg −1 in pond mud and 2.39 mg L −1 in pond water 9 , thus posing risks for the selection and spread of antibiotic resistances 10. The final fate of antibiotics likely depends on soil order and temperature 11,12 , as well as several physicochemical soil properties affecting sorption rates and dissipation 13,14. Several studies dealt with dissipation rates of antibiotics in soil under field (e.g. 11,15) or laboratory conditions (e.g. 16-18). While field studies reflect natural conditions best, laboratory studies allow to determine the influence of a sin...