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potable

adjective as in drinkable

Strong match

noun as in beverage

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Access to water in the eastern Coachella Valley cannot be separated out from development and cannot be separated out from issues of growth and the right to clean and potable water.

Desalination is the process of removing mineral components from saltwater to produce potable water for drinking and farming needs.

Maybe you need to figure out the water levels of a river at certain times of year, or determine if there’s potable water along your route, or learn about what the weather is typically like.

With the exception of the Scorpion Canyon Campground on Santa Cruz and the Water Canyon Campground on Santa Rosa, there’s also no potable water.

The lawsuit contended that contaminants from Plant Scherer caused a “loss of potable water supply and increased risk of diseases.”

Her goal is to reduce that number by making sure potable water is available and accessible to all.

But how many days can 300,000 people go without potable water before you can call it a full-blown crisis?

While there, I missed decent sidewalks, potable tap water, and a subway, markers of a society that cares about the common good.

The water of most of these is potable, but a few are a little saline, though not to such an extent as to influence vegetation.

The motive to this was a conceit that potable gold could be no other than the universal medicine: and why gold?

The word guma, like aubo, appears to be a generic term for water, or potable liquids.

That bacteria are not an inevitable element in potable water is proved by their absence from that of deep springs.

A chemist reads with interest Djafar's antique method of obtaining nitric He solves the problem of potable gold.

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On this page you'll find 15 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to potable, such as: edible, palatable, and safe to drink.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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