The word 'waterworks' is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to a system or installation for providing water, or to a public utility responsible for supplying water to a community. It can also be used to describe a series of pipes or channels that carry water to and from a particular location. Example: The city's waterworks department is responsible for maintaining and repairing the pipes that supply water to homes and businesses.
Chertkov visited Purleigh, but he chose to set up a press dedicated to Tolstoy's work at a large defunct waterworks nearby rather than subsume his rather robust ego to the will of a fraternity of equals.
Some whom I met and spoke with were selling cigarettes at a street-corner kiosk, others were wielding a wrench at the public waterworks, others spent their days on bicycles delivering buns to bakeries, still others were washing windows or pushing brooms as a janitor's assistant at some out-of-the-way Prague museum.
Diller Scofidio presented some renderings of tasteful waterworks that reassured the board, and, Liz Diller, one of the firm's principals, said, "we went to see WET's headquarters, in California, and we were very impressed.
We passed the city waterworks, a beautiful but decayed building on the Detroit River.
The Nile waterworks inspired him to drain marshes and build dikes.
Having wept and/or teared up on so many occasions during the campaign, I was expecting major waterworks.
The country needed to see Kerry really turn on the waterworks, blubbering unashamedly and dabbing his eyes with his necktie and pulling out a hankie the size of a laundry bag and blowing a heartfelt, robust honk to show he wasn't aloof.
Utilities were repaired — electric lights shone again, trams started running, and employees of the waterworks fixed seventy thousand leaks in mains and plumbing.
The less frequent, real waterworks always turned out to have something to do with a love affair, or their parents, or a pregnancy.
The decay of highways, bridges, waterworks, electric grids, railways, and communication networks, amid budgetary constraints and misaligned incentives, may be of much greater consequence than a rash of flat tires and broken axle shafts on Francis Lewis Boulevard, but the same principle pertains: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
Now the Collyer legend has been revisited by E. L. Doctorow, a writer of dazzling gifts and boundless imaginative energy, who — in such novels as "The Book of Daniel" (1971), "Ragtime" (1974), "Loon Lake" (1980), "Billy Bathgate" (1989), "The Waterworks" (1994), "City of God" (2000), and "The March 200505) — has emerged as our great chronicler of American mythology.
