water supply
noun
: a source, means, or process of supplying water (as for a community) usually including reservoirs, tunnels, and pipelines
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Despite the low snowpack, overall water supply levels remain stable in Placer County.
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Brady Halbleib, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
There is also growing worry about pharmaceutical drugs that get into the water supply because humans excrete them and conventional wastewater treatment plants fail to remove them.
—ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
Though the state is seeing a surface water supply far above average, March’s heat shock has left many less confident about the fate of water supply for the upcoming dry season.
—Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2026
Unless spring brings substantial late-season snowfall to the high mountains, 2026 could join those years as a marker of how thin the margin between water supply and demand has become in a river system already under sustained stress from two decades of drought and water overuse.
—Imtiaz Rangwala, The Conversation, 1 Apr. 2026
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Brady Halbleib, CBS News, 3 Apr. 2026
There is also growing worry about pharmaceutical drugs that get into the water supply because humans excrete them and conventional wastewater treatment plants fail to remove them.
—ABC News, 2 Apr. 2026
Though the state is seeing a surface water supply far above average, March’s heat shock has left many less confident about the fate of water supply for the upcoming dry season.
—Chaewon Chung, Sacbee.com, 1 Apr. 2026
Unless spring brings substantial late-season snowfall to the high mountains, 2026 could join those years as a marker of how thin the margin between water supply and demand has become in a river system already under sustained stress from two decades of drought and water overuse.
—Imtiaz Rangwala, The Conversation, 1 Apr. 2026
See All Example Sentences for water supply
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“Water supply.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/water%20supply. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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