Definitions for Fresh Water
fresh water

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fresh water, freshwaternoun

   water that is not salty

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

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

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

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. fresh water

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

How to pronounce Fresh Water?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

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   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

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   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

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   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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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. Alan Fenwick:

   The problem that sub Saharan Africa has is a lack of fresh water, safe water, and adequate sanitation, people who need to urinate and defecate tend to do so on the open ground, and their excreta can be washed into water where the eggs will then infect snails.

2. Erin Fougères:

   We are seeing higher numbers in Mississippi and Louisiana and we are concerned about fresh water, it's an exceptionally wet winter for the entire United States and it's the wettest winter in the Mississippi Valley in the past 124 years.

3. Henry Adams:

   American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

4. Lee Zlotoff:

   We are a world of 7.5 billion people and there are serious problems that need solving, from food to fresh water, to energy waste management, we are all in this together. We are a global civilization, and whether we care to acknowledge it or not (in the media), 50 percent of that population is often dissuaded from figuring out those problems.

5. 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.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Fresh Water
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fresh_Water
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresh_Water
4. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=Fresh Water