water supply
Piped drinking source
Water supply is the system or source that provides water to a community, building, or region: The drought threatened the city's water supply.
It can refer to infrastructure—pipes, reservoirs, treatment plants—or simply to the available water itself: We filled every container to ensure an adequate water supply.
The term often appears in discussions of public health and urban planning.
- reservoirLarge water storage basin
- valveFluid flow controller
- irrigationArtificial water supply for agriculture
- aqueductChannel conveying water distances
- waste managementRefuse collection and disposal
pipeline · desalination · aquifer · catchment area · sewage systems · dam · well · hydrant · hydrology · spring · leak detection · drinking · boil advisory · utility · shortage · fire hydrant · meter · municipal
- disaster responsedisaster relief, search and rescue, first responders, emergency preparedness, emergency shelter
- sanitationsewage, sewers, cleaning, sewer, disinfecting
- supplystock, provisions, stockpile, reserve, stores
- city servicestransit, public transit, libraries, sanitation, fire department
- civic servicesfire department, police, public library, public transit, public parks
- municipal servicescity services, municipal services, municipal workers, city departments, waste collection
water supplywater shortage
Insufficient supply of water
water scarcity · drought · water crisis · aridity · desiccation
water supplywater drainage
Removal of excess liquid
drainage system · sewage system · runoff · effluent · water extraction
water supplysewage system
Infrastructure for wastewater removal
wastewater · drainage · sewerage · effluent · sanitary sewer
water, supply, supplies, watered, watering, waters, supplied, supplier, supplying