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 Word Forms

• water-supply adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of water supply¹

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

Officials for St. Paul’s Fire District, which covers Charleston County, said Edisto Island, the barrier island where the home is located, has a limited water supply, which made fighting the fire more difficult.

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Pressure started to build following the arrest on 19 September of two leading city politicians, who had planned a peaceful demonstration in the capital, Antananarivo, over chronic power and water supply problems.

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One Cebu resident told the BBC he was among them, adding that power and water supplies were cut off.

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But he never imagined the scale of it, describing it as an "attack on every layer of life in Gaza, from infrastructure, electricity, the water supply, the sewage system, the hospitals, schools and universities."

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One thing that is part of the water supply in our day and age is no second chances.

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Related Words

• water system 
• waterworks