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WATER CONSERVATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does water conservation mean?
• WATER CONSERVATION (noun)
The noun WATER CONSERVATION has 1 sense:
1. the conservation of water resources
Familiarity information: WATER CONSERVATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The conservation of water resources
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("water conservation" is a kind of...):
conservation (the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources)
Context examples
A high salt diet increased glucocorticoid levels, causing muscle and liver to burn more energy to produce urea, which was then used in the kidney for water conservation.
(How the body regulates salt levels, NIH)
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