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Princeton's WordNet

  1. fresh water, freshwaternoun

    water that is not salty

Wiktionary

  1. fresh waternoun

    Water with a very low content of dissolved salt, as opposed to brackish water or salt water.

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  1. Fresh water

    Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids. Although the term specifically excludes seawater and brackish water, it does include non-salty mineral-rich waters such as chalybeate springs. Fresh water may encompass frozen and meltwater in ice sheets, ice caps, glaciers, snowfields and icebergs, natural precipitations such as rainfall, snowfall, hail/sleet and graupel, and surface runoffs that form inland bodies of water such as wetlands, ponds, lakes, rivers, streams, as well as groundwater contained in aquifers, subterranean rivers and lakes. Fresh water is the water resource that is of the most and immediate use to humans. Water is critical to the survival of all living organisms. Many organisms can thrive on salt water, but the great majority of higher plants and most insects, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and birds need fresh water to survive. Fresh water is not always potable water, that is, water safe to drink by humans. Much of the earth's fresh water (on the surface and groundwater) is to a substantial degree unsuitable for human consumption without some treatment. Fresh water can easily become polluted by human activities or due to naturally occurring processes, such as erosion. Fresh water makes up less than 3% of the world's water resources, and just 1% of that is readily available. Just 3% of it is extracted for human consumption. Agriculture uses roughly two thirds of all fresh water abstracted from the environment.Fresh water is a renewable and variable, but finite natural resource. Fresh water is replenished through the process of the water cycle, in which water from seas, lakes, forests, land, rivers and reservoirs evaporates, forms clouds, and returns inland as precipitation. Locally, however, if more fresh water is consumed through human activities than is naturally restored, this may result in reduced fresh water availability (or water scarcity) from surface and underground sources and can cause serious damage to surrounding and associated environments. Water pollution also reduces the availability of fresh water.

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  1. fresh water

    Fresh water is water that has very low salt concentration, usually less than 1%. It is primarily found in bodies of water such as ponds, lakes, rivers, and streams, as well as in underground sources like wells and springs. Fresh water is essential for all terrestrial life forms including plants, animals and humans, who use it for drinking, washing, and irrigation among other things.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Fresh Water

    Water containing no significant amounts of salts, such as water from RIVERS and lakes.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. fresh water

    Water fit to drink, in opposition to sea or salt water; now frequently obtained at sea by distillation. (See ICEBERG.)

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Fresh Water in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Fresh Water in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of Fresh Water in a Sentence

  1. The Alberta Energy Regulator:

    The remaining 55 pipelines affected by the order, which contain several products, including crude oil, natural gas, salt water, fresh water and emulsion, continue to be suspended, these pipelines ... will not return to service until Nexen can demonstrate that the pipelines can be operated safely and within all requirements.

  2. Kelly Taylor:

    As a fresh water species being in salt water New Orleans.Park officials can make assumption it was probably dehydrated, it is received fluids but that is also standard.

  3. Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe:

    The only food we saw were a few potatoes and a box of rice in the filthy trailer, but what was most surprising, and heartbreaking was when the team located a total of five adults and 11 children that looked like third world country refugees not only with no food or fresh water, but with no shoes, personal hygiene and basically dirty rags for clothing.

  4. Tim Darms:

    We can take basically any type of fresh water and treat it to primary drinking water standards in the U.S., to demonstrate the effectiveness, I’ll be the first person to drink the water (from) each system we install.

  5. Bhim Singh Rawat:

    The river in Delhi's stretch is an ecologically dead river, it doesn't have fish or fresh water birds. That has been the case for years now.


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