water supply
noun
: a source, means, or process of supplying water (as for a community) usually including reservoirs, tunnels, and pipelines
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Avoiding them is all but impossible in a world where water supplies are tainted and babies suckle on plastic bottles from their earliest days on earth.
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Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 13 Feb. 2025
But similar Scripps projects in other parts of the state have aided other reservoirs essential to water supply management.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacramento Bee, 11 Feb. 2025
The current $6 million transformation is focused on the pumphouse, where huge steam engines once pushed along the city’s water supply system.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2025
For a piece like Urinetown to sustain itself across two acts, the sweetness has to bleed into the arch irony without flooding the water supply with glucose (or, alternatively, leaching it out and leaving only irony).
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
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Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 13 Feb. 2025
But similar Scripps projects in other parts of the state have aided other reservoirs essential to water supply management.
—Jake Goodrick, Sacramento Bee, 11 Feb. 2025
The current $6 million transformation is focused on the pumphouse, where huge steam engines once pushed along the city’s water supply system.
—Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 8 Feb. 2025
For a piece like Urinetown to sustain itself across two acts, the sweetness has to bleed into the arch irony without flooding the water supply with glucose (or, alternatively, leaching it out and leaving only irony).
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
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“Water supply.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/water%20supply. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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