Noun
sweet water (countable and uncountable, plural sweet waters)
(uncommon) Fresh water.
Wisdom ... never closes her school of thought but always opens her doors to those who thirst for the sweet water of discourse, and pouring on them an unstinted stream of undiluted doctrine, persuades them to be drunken with the drunkenness which is soberness itself. Philo
Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere? Rumi
A man standing by a spring of clear, sweet water and cursing it. While the fresh water keeps on bubbling up. He can shovel mud into it, or dung, and the stream will carry it away, wash itself clean, remain unstained. (Hays translation) Marcus Aurelius
For centuries sweet water artesian wells in the Fayyum Oasis have permitted extensive cultivation in an irrigated area that extends over convert. Source: Internet
There is a clear, sweet water in the middle of that marrowy substance which is very refreshing. Source: Internet
They were commonly carried by Spanish ships as a source of sweet water. Source: Internet