WATER SUPPLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water supply mean? 

• WATER SUPPLY (noun)
  The noun WATER SUPPLY has 1 sense:

1. a facility that provides a source of water

  Familiarity information: WATER SUPPLY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATER SUPPLY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A facility that provides a source of water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

water; water supply; water system

Context example:

first you have to cut off the water

Hypernyms ("water supply" is a kind of...):

facility; installation (a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry)

Meronyms (parts of "water supply"):

artificial lake; man-made lake; reservoir (lake used to store water for community use)

water main (main (a pipe or conduit) for conveying water)

Holonyms ("water supply" is a part of...):

base; infrastructure (the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area)

 Context examples 

Norovirus can spread quickly through a community through its water supply.

(Using a smartphone to detect norovirus, National Science Foundation)

Contaminated water supplies can lead to Giardia infections.

(Parasitic Diseases, NIH)

The United States has one of the safest water supplies in the world, but drinking water quality can vary from place to place.

(Drinking Water, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Although often naturally occurring, these contaminants have made their way into water supplies and, via irrigation, into the food chain.

(Experts warn of cardiovascular risk from heavy metal pollution, University of Cambridge)

The Gumbasa Aqueduct was completed in 1913 to reduce the risk of famine by providing a consistent water supply for local farmers.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)

Human activity can pollute groundwater particularly in the shallowest few hundred metres where it is relied upon for water supply and irrigation.

(Modern pollutants can reach deep fossil aquifers, SciDev.Net)

The amount of delivered mass needed for human exploration could be greatly reduced by using Martian natural resources for a water supply and as raw material for producing hydrogen fuel.

(A Fresh Look at Older Data Yields a Surprise Near the Martian Equator, NASA)

Carl Hensman of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which offered a contest for redesigning the toilet some years ago, noted the ingredients in the sprays are also found in commonly used products like — in the case of the first spray — toothpaste, and are unlikely to pollute nearby water supplies; though he also remarked that, because the spray wears off, it was unlikely to be used widely in developing countries as the researchers claim to hope.

(Materials scientists invent new coating for self-cleaning, water-efficient toilets, Wikinews)

According to the research team, half of all people worldwide are affected by limits on their water supply, while daily fresh water usage to flush the planet's roughly 1 billion toilets and flush urinals is upwards of 141 billion liters; which they note is several times larger than the total rate of water consumption for the continent of Africa.

(Materials scientists invent new coating for self-cleaning, water-efficient toilets, Wikinews)