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Vsuresh Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Vocabulary

Hi

Can you help?

Can we say we were sending the water in a different direction.

To me send sounds a little unnatural, but still I want to know whether we can use 'send water' in any context.
  

Top answer

It sounds natural to me. But you can use a more specific word depending on the context: We were piping the water in a different direction. We were diverting the water.

— AlpheccaStars

  • It sounds natural to me.
  • But you can use a more specific word depending on the context: We were piping the water in a different direction.
  • We were diverting the water.
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It sounds natural to me.

But you can use a more specific word depending on the context:

We were piping the water in a different direction.

We were diverting the water.
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Send can either be used to mean shipping water and it can also be used to mean directing water.

We were sending water to the relief effort in Haiti in order to avoid catastrophic loss of life from dehydration.

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Due to spring floods, we were forced to send water over the spillway into the Atchafalaya flood basin in order to save New Orleans from certain disast
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Thank you, AlpheccaStars.
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diverting water or rerouting water might also work.

CJ
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Thanks. Your answer has made think about something- transporting water itself- I had not.
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