How to Use water supply in a Sentence

water supply

noun

• The pipe was cracked, severing the water supply and flooding the first floor of the station.
  — John R. Ellement, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2023
• The flow rate of a soaker hose depends on the length and inner diameter of the hose, the pressure of the water supply, and the rate of the faucet.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Apr. 2023
• Now health officials fear for the state of the water supply, among many other things.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 9 Feb. 2023
• The guideline is used to forecast the state’s water supply in the drier summer months.
  — Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 2 Feb. 2024
• For decades, many of the households in Rio Verde Foothills had their water hauled in from Scottsdale’s water supply.
  — Daniel Rothberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2024
• The efforts to secure new water supplies could be a race against climate change.
  — Peter Eavis Nathalia Angarita, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2023
• Disconnect the water supply to the tank using a set of channel locks.
  — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 26 Jan. 2023
• The City of Foley said the overflows did not affect any public water supplies.
  — Ike Morgan | [e-mail], al, 4 Sep. 2023
• Knowing just how much snow will melt and feed the water supply helps growers adjust.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 21 Jan. 2023
• In the heart of California, at the place where two great rivers converge beneath the Tule fog, lies the linchpin of one of the largest water supply systems in the world.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
• Each faucet is solid brass forged and comes with a push pop-up drain stopper, overflow, valve, and water supply line.
  — Rachel Simon, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 July 2023
• Many said the housing units are cramped and squalid, with cockroaches scuttling across the floor and a briny water supply that caused rashes.
  — Anna Schecter, NBC News, 10 Oct. 2023
• Killing thousands with cholera by polluting the Haitian water supply?
  — David Adesnik, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
• Even water supplies are reliant on energy from the sun to function.
  — Chao Deng, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2023
• The slow, steady melting of Sierra Nevada snowpack each spring and summer has long been a key component of the state’s water supply.
  — Hayley Smith, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
• The rainy season is still three months away, and is crucial for the densely populated city's water supply.
  — USA TODAY, 6 Mar. 2024
• Knowing how much snow has fallen in these areas is important for more than just the water supply.
  — Caralin Nunes, The Arizona Republic, 24 Feb. 2024
• At the same time, many water experts say that building reservoirs is costly and would have little net increase in the water supply.
  — Dustin Gardiner, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Mar. 2023
• In the last 40 years, snowpack melt has trended three weeks earlier in many areas of the West, which has stressed the already limited water supply.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 27 Mar. 2023
• The massive snowpack has done wonders for the water supply, with reservoir water storage up as much as 81 percent from a year ago.
  — Dan Stillman and Jason Samenow, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2023
• The surface runoff could have then congregated into a puddle or into a water supply used by the bees.
  — Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Jan. 2024
• But those numbers dwindled to alarming levels, falling about 50% over the past week, according to the chairman of the city’s water supply and sewage board, V. Ram Prasat Manohar.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN, 15 Mar. 2024
• This is already a center of conflict and a lack of water is sure to add volatility both to the drinking water supply and to the farmers struggling to survive.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
• But the surrounding snow provided a water supply, not to mention a meat freezer.
  — Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 8 Feb. 2024
• Once the water supply has been shut off and all remaining water has been sprayed out of the nozzle, Eggleston advises first hitting the base of the nozzle with the hammer to help loosen it.
  — Rennie Dyball, Peoplemag, 7 Mar. 2023
• To fix the issue, Jennifer and Beth had to employ emergency contractors who promptly switched off the water supply, and dug a giant hole in the backyard.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 17 Jan. 2023
• On a statewide level, Hilary also didn’t have a major effect on water supplies.
  — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
• In Arizona, longer summers and an earlier start to spring may greatly affect the state's already scarce water supply.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 26 July 2023
• So far, this winter is setting up to be nearly perfect in terms of timing and water supply, experts said Monday.
  — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 12 Feb. 2024
• The local water supply was not considered safe to drink, so the custom was to blend it with wine for wine’s antiseptic properties.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 16 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024