water infrastructure
Municipal liquid systems
Water infrastructure is the systems that deliver, treat, and remove water—pipes, pumps, reservoirs, treatment plants, sewers, and drainage systems.
The term appears most often in discussions of public works and municipal spending: The city's aging water infrastructure needs billions in repairs.
Infrastructure failures make news when pipes burst or contamination occurs.
- culvertTunnel for water passage
- aqueductChannel conveying water distances
- pipelineLong-distance fluid transport tube
- spillwayDam's water release structure
- reservoirLarge water storage basin
retention pond · canal network · desalination plant · dike · fire hydrant · hydrant · dam · floodgate · sewer network · tank · cistern · distribution network · sluice · rain garden · wellhead · levee · septic tank · aquifer
- water resourcesfreshwater, aquifers, aquifer, watersheds, groundwater
- water systemsirrigation ditches, irrigation, pipes, tanks, wells
- water supplywells, pumps, pipes, freshwater, pumping stations
- water accessdock, boat ramp, pier, boat launch, marina
- Droughtdry spell, dry spells, no rain, low rainfall, parched earth
- utilitieselectricity, public utilities, gas service, gas, power
water infrastructurerivers
Flowing bodies of water
streams · aquifers · natural springs · wetlands · lakes
water infrastructureelectrical grid
System transmitting electricity regionally
power infrastructure · transportation infrastructure · energy infrastructure · gas pipelines · digital infrastructure
water infrastructurewater scarcity
Insufficient freshwater for demand