potable
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There are shortages of food and potable water.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026
Not every bucket drawn up from the well of old IP will prove potable, but it often has: “Arrested Development,” “Veronica Mars,” “Party Down,” “Roseanne/The Conners,” “Frasier,” even “Dallas.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026
The crew also does not have access to potable drinking water.
From BBC • Jan. 30, 2026
Burr and his co-conspirators absconded with the money, and it took another 40 years for New Yorkers to gain wide access to potable water.
From Barron's • Dec. 19, 2025
To make the water potable, the Maya laid a layer of crushed limestone atop the sediments, effectively paving over the salt.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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