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Definition: Fresh Water |
Fresh WaterNoun1. Water that is not salty. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Environment | Water that generally contains less than 1,000 milligrams-per-liter of dissolved solids. (references) |
Mining | A. Water containing less than 1,000 mg/L of dissolved solids; generally, water with more than 500 mg/L is undesirable for drinking and for many industrial uses (Solley et al., 1983) b. In general usage, the water of streams and lakes unaffected by salt water or salt-bearing rocks. Syn:sweet waterfresh-water. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Fresh water (also freshwater or fresh-water) is water that contains only minimal quantities of dissolved salts, especially sodium chloride, thus distinguishing it from sea water or brackish water. All freshwater ultimately comes from precipitation of atmospheric water vapor, reaching inland lakes, rivers, and groundwater bodies directly, or after melting of snow or ice (see hydrologic cycle).
Access to fresh water is a critical issue for the survival of many species, especially in desert areas. See water resources.
Even on a ship or island, there can be a "water shortage", which means a shortage of fresh water.
For fish it strongly matters how much dissolved sodium chloride the water they live in has. Most species cannot live in both fresh and salt water, though some species move between the two. Salt water fish have access to an abundance of salt, and try to get as much salt out of their body as possible, while trying to keep the water. Fresh water fish do the opposite: They have too much water, and too little salt.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Fresh water."
| Antonyms: brine (n), seawater (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Bungler | Land lubber; fresh water sailor, fair weather sailor; horse marine; fish out of water, ass in lion's skin,land lubber; fresh water sailor, fair weather sailor; horse marine; fish out of water, ass in lion's skin, jackdaw in peacock's feathers; quack; (deceiver); lord of misrule. |
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Screenplays | All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us (Life of Brian; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.) If you put some fresh water in here, plant food, they should last, oh, three or four days--about as long as your relationship with Victor (Days of Our Lives; writing credit: Claude-Marcel Richard) | |
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 | Flooding of low-lying areas at Holland Cliffs Shores by extreme high tides. Land is being lost at a rate of 1" per year in the Chesapeake Bay region due to combination of sea level rise and subsidence caused by lowering water tables. As population grows, so does demand for fresh water causing further subsidence, making events such as this increasingly common. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Fresh water marsh adjacent to Gulf Intracoastal Waterway. Note push boat and barge in background. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Collecting fresh water at Cross Island on a berg near Cross Island on misty day. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | On a fresh water collecting expedition Pools of fresh water form on the top of the berg. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Fresh water wetlands at the Parker River restoration site. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |  | Sapelo Island National Estuarine Research Reserve. McIntosh County is home to a large nesting population of wood storks. Considered an endangered species, wood storks frequent both estuarine and fresh water systems. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Figure 8. L. Linsbauer's photometer. Left: a picture of the unit. Right: a picture of the internal photometer mechanism. This instrument was invented by Ludwig Linsbauer for use in fresh water. It was used in Lake Traunsee in the northern part of Austria in 1904 at small depths. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | A fresh water well on Yap. These wells are being diluted by salt-water as a as a result of sea level rise. Credit: Small World. |
 | Cows receive fresh water from a spring development on Eng-Land Acres in central Maryland. Credit: Tim McCabe. |  | Scenic view of fresh water rapids. Many water managers use NRCS's snow survey data to manage streams for recreation. Credit: Ron Nichols. |
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Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | We sailed with a fair wind to the Cape of Good Hope, where we stayed only to take in fresh water. |
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Health | Avoid swimming or wading in fresh water when you are in countries in which schistosomiasis occurs. (references) | |
Do not swim in warm, stagnant, fresh water, such as ponds or wastewater discharge pools, or unchlorinated swimmimg pools. (references) | ||
They may be free-living or associated with animal hosts and survive well in fresh water, soil, and mud in tropical areas. (references) | ||
Business | Recycled water costs more than fresh water. (references) | |
With 22% of the world’s population and only 8% of its fresh water, China’s per capita availability of fresh water is barely a quarter of the world average. (references) | ||
This gravity-based reverse osmosis water desalination project will be used as an alternative solution to conventional resources for increasing the fresh water supply. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Pakistan | For example, sanitation, health care, shelter, and fresh water are continuing problems in the new camps. (references) |
Economic History | Brazil | Brazil has 12% of the world's fresh water. (references) |
Seychelles | They have no fresh water and can sustain human life only with difficulty. (references) | |
Travel | Barbados | Fresh water around the island is safe to drink. (references) |
Worker Rights | Panama | In several plantations, indigenous workers were not provided with shelters, sanitary or cooking facilities, or fresh water; they also did not have machetes or gloves for their work. (references) |
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Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | To develop knowledge which will enrich our lives and ensure our progress, I will recommend programs to encourage basic science, particularly in the universities-and to bring closer the day when the oceans will supply our growing need for fresh water. |
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Expressions using "fresh water": fresh water fish ♦ fresh water shrimp. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "fresh water"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | vars water (fresh). (various references) | |
Arabic | مياه نقية, مياه عذبة (sweet water). (various references) | |
Danish | ferskvand (freshwater, soft water, sweet water). (various references) | |
Dutch | zoet water (freshwater), onthard water (soft water, softened water, sweet water). (various references) | |
Esperanto | sensala akvo, dolĉa akvo. (various references) | |
Finnish | suolaton vesi, pehmeä vesi (soft water, sweet water). (various references) | |
French | eau douce (freshwater). (various references) | |
Frisian | farsk wetter. (various references) | |
German | Süßwasser (freshwater). (various references) | |
Greek | γλυκό νερό (freshwater). (various references) | |
Hungarian | friss víz, édesvíz (freshwater). (various references) | |
Italian | acqua dolce (soft water). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 真水 , 淡水 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | た"すい, まみず. (various references) | |
Manx | ushtey millish, feer ushtey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eshfray aterway.(various references) | |
Portuguese | água doce (freshwater, soft water, sweet water). (various references) | |
Romanian | peşte de apã dulce (fresh water fish). (various references) | |
Russian | пресная вода. (various references) | |
Scottish | bùrn (water). (various references) | |
Spanish | agua dulce (freshwater, soft water, sweet water). (various references) | |
Sranan | switwatra. (various references) | |
Swedish | sötvatten (freshwater). (various references) | |
Turkish | tatlı su (freshwater, sweet water). (various references) | |
Turkmen | sьяji (candy, sugary, sweet). (various references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: freshwater. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-h-r-r-s-t-w" | |
-2 letters: feathers, ferrates, waterers, weathers, wreathes. | |
-3 letters: aethers, afreets, farther, fathers, fearers, feaster, feather, ferrate, ferrets, fraters, fresher, freshet, fretsaw, hafters, hearers, heaters, hefters, rafters, refresh, rehears, reheats, retears, serrate, shearer, strafer, strewer, swather, swearer, sweater, tearers, terefah, thawers, wafters, waterer, wearers, weather, wethers, whereas, whereat, wreathe, wreaths, wrester. | |
-4 letters: aether, afreet, afresh, afters. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-f-h-r-r-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: freshwaters. | |
+3 letters: flamethrowers, weatherproofs. | |
+4 letters: thenceforwards. | |
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