water development

1. 1.

   making an area of water more useful

   Synonymswater projectwater program

   Broaderexploitation

Questions about water development

What does water development mean?

water development means "making an area of water more useful".

What is another word for water development?

Close synonyms include water project, water program. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is water development a common word?

water development is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.