water supply

noun

: a source, means, or process of supplying water (as for a community) usually including reservoirs, tunnels, and pipelines

Examples of water supply in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Since California’s water supply is already projected to shrink in the coming decades because of climate change, opening more data centers that require more of that key resource does not bode well. —

Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024 Moody’s noted: MDC credit strengths as a large service area customer base, solid resident income, ample water supply and treatment capacity, healthy financial operations, and provisions of Public Act 17-1. —

Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 8 Aug. 2024 For Becker, the project’s story starts back in 2002, when a drought laid bare the inadequacy of the city’s water supply. —

Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 4 Aug. 2024 McClure had served at Camp Lejeune, a sprawling Marine Corps training facility in North Carolina, where up to 1 million people may have been exposed to a drinking water supply contaminated with chemicals from 1953 to 1987, according to federal health officials. —

Melissa Chan, NBC News, 4 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for water supply

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