The motive that led to the occupation of this mesa was defense; the cause that led to the selection of the particular site was facility for procuring a water supply.
The occasional springs which furnish scanty water supply to the inhabitants of this region are found generally at great distances apart, and there are usually but few natural indications of their location.
Water companies and those responsible for water supply appear to hold the opinion that so long as there is sand filtration or subsidence reservoirs it is unnecessary to consider the gathering-ground or transit.
The same cause is generally operative in cases of pollution of a water supply in its course from the source to the cisterns or taps at the periphery, viz.
The article on water supply by Mr. Gerhard is authoritative, written, as it is, by a most eminent sanitarian.
The quality of a water supply is dependent upon physical properties and upon chemical and bacteriological characteristics.
This proves that although running water does purify itself, a stream that is drained into all along its course is not a fit source of water supply.
Here all land values depend directly on ability to obtain a water supply.
If city sewage or barn-yards are allowed to drain into it, the germs of typhoid and other fevers enter the water supply.
To insure the purity of water supply from a stream, no factory waste, city sewage or country refuse should be allowed to enter any part of the stream.
Because they are primarily people problems and more people live there than anywhere else, the problems tend to be bigger, including that of water supply.
The kind of pipe that is used for cold-water supply depends on and varies according to the kind of water, the kind of earth through which it runs, and the construction of the building.
A valve should be placed on the cold-water supply to control the entire hot-water piping system.
Water supply that is received directly from underground is by far the best to use.
Even more important than the value of the timber which is lost annually is the part which these large areas play in the conservation of water supply.
While the reforestation of the watersheds of streams important for irrigation and municipal water supply has a large financial value, this value is hard to estimate because it involves not actual cash profit but loss prevented.
A major medium-term problem is the improvement of roads, water supply, and other parts of an infrastructure badly neglected during years of civil strife.
The commander establishes safeguards to prevent personnel from using the contaminated water supply.
There has long been a strong and growing feeling that the water supply, before filtration was introduced, had been blamed for more than its share of the typhoid, and this is borne out by much evidence that has been presented from time to time.
A sand filter was constructed for the water supply of this city in 1909, and put in operation in December.
A particular feature of the study of water supply is that in connection with the acidity of the Monongahela and the eastern affluents of the Allegheny and its effect upon the sewage discharged by an enormous town population into them.
The toilet accommodations, while possibly more adequate than the water supply, are unsatisfactory in consequence of the lack of running water.
Hydraulic elevators where the water is used over and over again, by being pumped from the discharge to elevated tanks, cut little or no figure in connection with a city's water supply.
Even more important than an elevated situation was a water supply, hence all Palestinian cities of importance are near springs.
The passage terminated in a large cave, in the bottom of which was a spring, and was evidently constructed to enable the inhabitants to reach a water supply in time of siege.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "water supply" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
