water supply

noun

1. the supply of purified water available to a community.
2. the facilities for storing and supplying this water, as reservoirs and pipelines.

water supply

noun

1. an arrangement of reservoirs, purification plant, distribution pipes, etc, for providing water to a community
2. the supply of treated and purified water for a community

Other Words From

• water-sup·ply adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of water supply¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

The affected water would have taken between 24 and 36 hours to start reaching the drinking water supply, and there are reportedly other safeguards down the line that likely would have caught the problem before it made its way to the public.

From Popular-Science

We’ve discovered a few options that can dig through backcountry roots and rocks so you can keep nearby water supplies clean.

From Popular-Science

Oil spills lead to massive contamination of soil and groundwater — including drinking water supplies.

From Ozy

The San Diego region gets 69 percent of its water supply from a source also transported hundreds of miles via a series of canals and pipelines.

From Voice of San Diego

In Corbett, the town has started excavation work to find a new water supply.

From ProPublica

Fluoride first entered an American water supply through a rather inelegant technocratic scheme.

From The Daily Beast

It is provided with best conditions for water supply, heating and ventilation.

From The Daily Beast

Earlier this month, Toledo, Ohio, watched its municipal water supply descend into an undrinkable stew of algal toxins.

From The Daily Beast

It had a notorious problem with the toxic chemical in the local water supply.

From The Daily Beast

Crimea relies on the Ukrainian mainland for 80 percent of its local water supply, and much of Crimea is farmland.

From The Daily Beast

It is sufficient to say that the water-supply of the mine was worked by the pressure of the air upon these springs.

From Project Gutenberg

Many of them had no water-supply and very little air; some had no sewers, and where sewers existed they were generally choked up.

From Project Gutenberg

His water supply was nearly exhausted, and he had no more wood.

From Project Gutenberg

The water supply came from a brook that was higher than the houses.

From Project Gutenberg

The soil is fertile, the climate genial, there is an inexhaustible water supply, and an ample rainfall.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• water system
• waterworks