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

Federal officials said the changes under the new rules include provisions aimed at managing cold-water reservoir releases from Shasta Dam to help endangered winter-run Chinook salmon survive.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2024

Some are surfers, and there's a few cold-water swimmers and a sky diver.

From BBC • Oct. 17, 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

Her first, blatantly martyred chore was to turn on the cold-water tap.

From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger