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waterworks

waw ter wurks

  • n  a public utility that provides water
  • n  workplace where water is stored and purified and distributed for a community

  • It's a guilty pleasure first, soapy and clichd; there's rarely an emotional moment without a big-eyed kid or a Jude Johnstone ballad to cue the waterworks.
  • The city had purchased the waterworks from a private owner that was struggling, says Tim Hewitt, president and CEO of Veolia Water Indianapolis.
  • Local waterworks executives have been wandering Capitol Hill seeking a bigger piece of the pending federal Homeland Security budget.
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  • Carrie Underwood in PR Newswire (press release)
    Here I go again, the waterworks have started,an emotional Underwood said. "If you had told me years ago that I would be nominated with the people I was nominated with I would have thought you were insane."
  • Kadir TopbaÅŸ in Reuters
    The State Waterworks Authority and the Istanbul Water and Sewage Authority will focus very intensively on the river basins to solve the problems in those areas,Mayor Kadir Topbas told a news conference.
  • Ignacio Bunye in Inquirer.net
    The MWSS [Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System] together with the MWCI and MWSI are continually exploring other means of further reducing the water rates,Bunye said.

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