public utility

We have a provision in our Constitution like this: the use of water for irrigation and the like shall forever be a public utility.

You can judge better than I whether it will be of any public utility to lay them before Congress.

I have written in the greatest haste upon a subject, which I hope your Excellency will turn to public utility.

I lament to see qualities, rare and valuable, squandered away without any public utility.

Such a regulation, however, was founded purely on considerations of public utility.