water supply

1. 1.

   a facility that provides a source of water

   “the town debated the purification of the water supply”

   “first you have to cut off the water”

   Synonymswater systemwater

   Broaderfacility

   Part ofinfrastructure

   Partsreservoirwater main

Questions about water supply

What does water supply mean?

water supply means "a facility that provides a source of water".

What is another word for water supply?

Close synonyms include water system, water. 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 supply a common word?

water supply 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.