cold water

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In major cities, middle-class reformers opened settlement houses for poor immigrants, enacted housing codes to ban cold-water tenements and set up free public schools.

From Salon • Jul. 30, 2025

While many people may be aware of the dangers of entering the Thames, other waterways can also be dangerous: strong currents, sudden drops, hidden hazards and cold-water shock can affect even the strongest swimmers.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2025

The creek provides a rare cold-water refuge for salmon, which is especially important as climate change brings warmer water temperatures, Soto said, and other creeks will now become similar refuges.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2024

They collected 325 samples from nine species of cold-water anthozoans from non-coral reef environments at five locations in coastal British Columbia, Canada.

From Science Daily • Apr. 11, 2024

As the boys explored the building, they found it to be squeaky-clean, well lit, and efficient but perpetually cold and equipped only with cold-water showers—an unwelcome reminder of their old shell house in Poughkeepsie.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown