Stripped and sent, as ordered, to find water (7,3)
I believe the answer is:
barents sea
'water' is the definition.
(I have seen 'cold water' mean 'barents sea' so perhaps 'water' could also mean 'barents sea')
'stripped and sent as ordered' is the wordplay.
'stripped' becomes 'bare' (synonyms).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'ordered' is an anagram indicator.
'sent'+'as'='sentas'
'sentas' is an anagram of 'ntssea'.
'bare'+'ntssea'='BARENTS SEA'
'to find' is the link.
(Other definitions for barents sea that I've seen before include "cold water" , "part of Arctic Ocean" .)