Remote water supply
A long-distance water supply is a pipeline network through which drinking water is transported over long distances to one or more supply areas. The procurement of drinking water from other regions is necessary if there is no or insufficient drinking water supply in the supply areas or if its development is ecologically or economically unacceptable.
Long-distance water supplies are mainly operated by municipal companies or special-purpose associations .
The remote water supplies include:
Central Europe
- Alb water supply (Kingdom of Württemberg)
- Lake Constance water supply
- Long-distance water supply Elbaue-Ostharz
- Long-distance water supply Franconia
- Long-distance water supply Upper Franconia
- Long-distance water supply in southern Thuringia
- Harz waterworks
- Hessenwasser
- State water supply (Baden-Württemberg)
- Thuringian long-distance water supply
- Munich's water supply
- Vienna water supply
Non-European long-distance water supply companies
- ACTEW Corporation (Australia)
- American Water Works Company (USA)
- Devlet Su İşleri (Turkey)
- Namibia Water Corporation (Namibia)
- Rand Water (South Africa)
- Tokyo Prefecture Water Authority (Japan)