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Water company   /wˈɔtər kˈəmpəni/   Listen
Water company

noun
1.
A public utility that provides water.  Synonym: waterworks.






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"Water company" Quotes from Famous Books



... contrary to the Local Building Regulations; it infringed the right of the local authority to muddle about with a minute expensive electric supply of its own; it interfered with the concerns of the local water company. ...
— The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth • H.G. Wells

... hundred and fifty, accordin' to location, depth to water, et cetera. This will include stock in the company's water right. Water will be developed up in the mountains, on a site that goes with the ranch, at an approximate expense of one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. I am organizing my water company now, and will let all old friends in on the ground floor, of course. Water at Butte Springs, by the way, Ragtown's present supply, will cost twenty-five cents a head for stock, and five cents a ...
— The She Boss - A Western Story • Arthur Preston Hankins

... corporations for gain: it applies to "all corporations ... established for the purpose of carrying on business for profit ... but not to ... railroad or street railway company, telegraph or telephone company, gas or electric light, heat or power company, canal, aqueduct or water company, cemetery or crematory company, or to any other corporations which now have or may hereafter have the right to take or condemn land or to exercise franchises in public ways granted by the commonwealth or by any county, city, or town." The implication is that such ...
— Popular Law-making • Frederic Jesup Stimson

... valley seemed doomed to remain undeveloped unless somebody led pure water from above down the valley in a big cement-lined canal and the cost of such a canal would thus render the project prohibitive, unless the water company which might tackle the job ...
— The Long Chance • Peter B. Kyne

... "you got to get a permit to fish in that lake. Have you got a pull with the Water Company? Are ...
— Blix • Frank Norris



Words linked to "Water company" :   public-service corporation, public utility company, utility, public utility



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