freshwater
f resh waw ter
- n water that is not salty
- First, consider the impact on supplies of freshwater.
- Floridians, who tend to be casual about their state reptile, were suddenly hypervigilant to a danger that seemed to be lurking in every body of freshwater bigger than a bathtub.
- Compared with the costs of shipping freshwater by sea, "it's still cheaper to get freshwater by other means, even by desalinization of seawater," admits Turner of Waterbank.