[
UK
/pˈəʊtəbəl/
]
[ US /ˈpoʊtəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈpoʊtəbəɫ/ ]
NOUN
-
any liquid suitable for drinking
may I take your beverage order?
ADJECTIVE
- suitable for drinking
How To Use potable In A Sentence
- Each water unit produces 15,000 liters of clean potable water a day.
- Fish and whole forests died and water became non-potable, turning 30 kilometres of the river system into a moonscape.
- Depending on weather conditions, the discussants predicted, severe shortages of food and potable water could exceed the capacity of relief organizations to respond and might even stress international markets.
- What I try to avoid is mass-produced bottom-of-the-barrel troisième cru vin de table distilled from grapes grown in a soil unsuitable for the Chardonnay grape being passed off as potable.
- In many places, the cast-iron pipes which carry our potable water are so thick with rust that the flow is a mere trickle.
- On the other hand, it is possible to obtain potable water, filing a request with the community and paying a fee and purchasing a hose to connect to the community water supply to the property, connecting with the nearest neighbor. Land for sale / Terreno en venta Tirio, Michoac�n
- So we are just using normal potable water for drinking.
- Although it is no longer used for drinking, the basin did supply the town's potable water until the 1960s.
- They wanted a reliable, low-cost and easily managed system supplying potable water to a complex of delivery points across town, eliminating the need for people to draw their water from suspect sources.
- So, it's the water-borne illnesses, the lack of access to clean, potable water.