fresh water

noun

1. water that does not contain a large amount of salt.
2. inland water, as ponds, lakes, or streams, that is not salt.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fresh water¹

before 900; Middle English; Old English

Example Sentences

The excess fresh water washes away deposits and as a result, when pockets are created underground, the earth simply gives way.

From The Daily Beast

The property has more than 1,200 feet of oceanfront and a 35-acre fresh-water pond.

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On the surface, investing in clothing factories borders on frivolous when not everyone on the continent has food and fresh water.

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The Department of Sanitation sees it in basic terms: fresh water in (mostly from the lakes and reservoirs) and used water out.

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There, thousands of homeless survivors are living without fresh water or electricity, next to dead animals rotting in the streets.

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On a rocky islet in the centre of a fresh water pond two miles in circuit they commenced erecting a fort and store house.

From Project Gutenberg

The French found no fresh water in any part of Geographe Bay.

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Nor is the law changed by the conversion of a fresh water pond into a salt pond by the hand of man.

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Fresh water may be procured from a stream that runs over the beach.

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There is a run of fresh water in the bay to the eastward of the low sandy point, but it was not thought to be a durable stream.

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