The phrase "a waterworks" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a facility that supplies water, or it can be used informally to describe someone who is crying a lot.
Example: "The city invested in upgrading a waterworks to ensure clean water for all residents."
Alternatives: "a water supply system" or "a crying fit".
He built a waterworks of concrete tanks for breeding.
The team poses at a waterworks in Maharashtra, India, with local partners.
Smith's family had long lived in the area, and owned a waterworks factory in East Orange.
The CatchRisk model was tested on a groundwater catchment for a waterworks north of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Evans' last great work, completed in 1817, was a 24-horsepower high-pressure engine for a waterworks.
But that's just one of many reasons Renato Tizzoni, a waterworks engineer and part-time shepherd, is in a funk.
To her credit, this dreaded "documentation" (a term we've come to associate with deadly dull recapitulations) conveys the life and presence of such massive installations as a "Waterwork" plumbing and draining system at Gallaudet College in Washington and "Rock Rings," a circular, open-topped architectural structure at Western Washington University.
Mayor Dean Mazzarella of Leominster, Mass., said private-sector expertise was a boon to his city of 44,000, which was struggling with a leaking waterworks until it struck a deal a decade ago with USFilter.
And Mr. Filicia, who said he works with his decorating roster largely by telephone between airplanes, and who designed a bathroom for Kips Bay in a partnership with Waterworks, a high-end fixtures showroom, could be water circling the drain if "Queer Eye" loses its gleam and the endorsement deals dry up.
A hallway leads to the corner master suite, which has cedar-lined closets and a separate dressing room, as well as a sprawling Waterworks bath with double sinks, a glass shower and the ever-popular claw-foot soaking tub.
Cyanobacteria were ozonated in a laboratory-scale batch reactor modeled on a system used by a modern waterworks, with subsequent activated carbon and sand filtration steps.
