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running water en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Water available from taps.
    • First, since resettled people had to move into existing communities in designated resettlement areas, policy adjustment to assist host communities with running water and electricity were needed. 2012, Kate Lazarus, Bernadette P. Resurreccion, Nga Dao, Water Rights and Social Justice in the Mekong Region, →ISBN, page 48:
    • The things I previously seen as life's necessities—proper running water to drink and wash with, sanitary restrooms, and local medical help—were nowhere to be found in this God-forsaken little town. 2004, Tony Perez, Nine Lives and Still Running, →ISBN, page 1:
    • In sight of the river, their factories' source for water, they often live without running water and electricity [...because] the river becomes polluted with industrial wastewater as well as untreated, raw sewage. 2004, Mona D. Sizer, Texas Disasters: Wind, Flood, and Fire, Taylor Trade Publications, →ISBN, page 183:
    • A public system or private company refers to any source supplying running water to six or more housing units. 2000, Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area, 1998 - Volumes 170-199, page A-19:
    • At the time being middle class in America meant education for the children and modern home conveniences, most basically, hot and cold running water. 2010, Jonathan Soffer, Ed Koch and the Rebuilding of New York City, →ISBN:
    • The rural population of the United States in 1950 was 57.5 million; ( of this total 22 percent was served by running water) and used an estimated 3,500 million gallons of water per day. 1951, Kenneth Allen MacKichan, Estimated Use of Water in the United States, 1950, page 4:
  2. (uncountable) Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see running, water.
    • Productivity in running water is dependent primarily on attached algae, which is part of the periphyton. 2004, J. Jacoby, E. Welch, Pollutant Effects in Freshwater:
    • The action of running water is such as to wear away the banks against which the current is directed, and therefore one riparian owner has no right to change the flow of the current so as to direct it against the land of the opposite owner. 2006, Henry Philip Farnham, The Law of Waters and Water Rights, →ISBN:

Synonyms

tap water

Translations (17)

fr eau courante (water from taps) · de fließend Wasser (water from taps) · es agua corriente (water from taps) · nl kraanwater (water from taps) · pt água canalizada (water from taps) · es aguapié (water from taps) · gl auga corrente (water from taps) · hy հոսող ջուր (water from taps) · pt água corrente (water from taps) · es [el] agua de pie (water from taps) · pt água encanada (water from taps) · fi juokseva vesi (water from taps) · ro apă curentă (water from taps) · pl bieżąca woda (water from taps) · nl leidingwater (water from taps) · fi kraanavesi (water from taps) · nb rennende vann (water from taps)