drinking water
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Local anglers say it is a short distance upstream from where drinking water is abstracted.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
The second-guessing could extend even to long-settled standards, environmental scientists said, such as how much arsenic is allowed in drinking water and how much lead is acceptable in paint and soil.
From Salon • May 5, 2026
Jackson, Miss., residents were left without drinking water for weeks in 2022 after flooding overwhelmed the city’s out-of-date water treatment facility.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026
A new study from MIT indicates that a cancer-causing chemical found in some medications and in drinking water contaminated by industrial activity may pose a much greater risk to children than to adults.
From Science Daily • Apr. 29, 2026
By now the new science of bacteriology, pioneered by Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur, had convinced most public health officials that contaminated drinking water caused the spread of cholera and other bacterial diseases.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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