cold water

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Cut off from historic higher elevation cold-water spawning grounds by the Shasta and Keswick dams, the fish have been stranded for decades in the Sacramento River — where warm water routinely cooks their eggs.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

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

Since 2018 the 48-year-old has spun yarns including a Hollywood-style sign on a mountain to a nudist cold-water swimming club at a lake.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2025

The study also produced more evidence that cold-water tolerance varies significantly among salmon species.

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2024

Scruggs waits his turn while PFC Wright hikes his cold-water shower at Fire Support Base Nancy in Xuan Loc, Vietnam, 1969.

From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge