drinking water

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Edible & inedible
best-before date
comestible
condemned
drinkable
eatable
edible
esculent
fit
indigestibility
indigestible
inedible
non-edible
palatable
pull date
sell-by date
spoil
uneatable
unpalatable
unripe

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Clean & tidy
Safe and secure

Examples of potable

potable
This is not necessarily so, as is evidenced by the financial problems of the potable water systems in all three states.
The sites examined include the ocean, permanent bodies of potable water, burial grounds, religious centres and the male and female human body.
Since contaminated water may enter the spigot riser through the riser drain port, such spigots are not suitable for ' potable ' water systems.
Emergency spending typically involves the supply of potable water, provision of medical services, and distribution of food and medicines in dry years.
Only 41.4 % of rural households had potable tubed water, compared to 74.1 % in urban areas.
Potable water, surface and rhizosphere soil were collected from locations suitable for human exposure by direct contact, ingestion, inoculation or inhalation.
These practices have led to serious problems of erosion, soil compaction, loss of soil fertility, sedimentation of waterways and contamination of potable water sources5-7.
These services were generally the same in all three states : potable water and drainage, transit policing, and property tax collection.
A second obstacle to the transfer of potable water in the capital is financial.
These organisms are foreign to potable water and hence their presence is a reasonably sure indication of faecal contamination.
Water was collected from the terrace tank and at various sites along the hotel's potable water supply and tested for coliform bacteria and residual chlorine.
Women being active in subsistence agriculture have suffered most from oil-based environment degradation as it relates to potable water, firewood collection, subsistence farming and subsistence fishing.
Proposed method for nitrate in potable waters.
Water would not be potable or useful for irrigation if it came into contact with the salinized lower strata.
Por table colorimetric test kits can be used to detect low levels of glycols in potable water samples, but are susceptible to interferences.
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