drinking water

noun

1. water reserved or suitable for drinking

Example Sentences

Before anti-vaxxers, there were anti-fluoriders: a group who spread fear about the anti-tooth decay agent added to drinking water.

From The Daily Beast

Placed in drinking water, fluoride can serve people who otherwise have poor access to dental care.

From The Daily Beast

Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.

From The Daily Beast

The billionaire philanthropist tastes the product of a machine that processes human sewage into drinking water and electricity.

From The Daily Beast

That can happen, according to the report, when (flammable) methane leaks out of fracking wells and into drinking water.

From The Daily Beast

Is it war, I ask you, to seek to poison the drinking water of an enemy, to send stalking into their midst some loathsome disease?

From Project Gutenberg

They got their drinking water from a spring near by; there was a tiny stream beside the tent which provided their washing-water.

From Project Gutenberg

It was not unusual, for instance, to see dead bodies washed before burial in the conduit of drinking water!

From Project Gutenberg

The method shown in the sketch is used by me in cold weather to keep the drinking water for the poultry from freezing.

From Project Gutenberg

Then the horses and mules were watered, and stirred up the mud with their feet; and then we sent for drinking water.

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