The phrase "a lack of potable" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the absence of drinkable water or safe drinking options in a particular context.
Example: "The region is facing a severe crisis due to a lack of potable water, affecting the health of its residents."
Alternatives: "shortage of drinkable" or "deficiency of safe drinking".
While a full-scale humanitarian crisis has not yet developed, conditions on the ground are extremely dangerous and reports are emerging of children in southern Iraq falling ill because of a lack of potable water, sanitation facilities and medical supplies.
That's what he's supposed to say — it's what the state wants him to say, because it distracts Azeris from the problems facing Azerbaijan like poverty and a lack of potable drinking water by focusing on the shared enemy that is Armenia.
An investigation by the Guardian detailed how dozens of Nepalese migrants had died on construction projects while others faced brutal heat and a lack of potable water.
That's because insufficient sanitation, a lack of potable water, poor dietary habits and, critically, limited access to safe and nutritious foods all interact to affect people's health status.
The contrast between developing countries suffering from a lack of potable water and Sweden, that boasts clean tap water, couldn't be starker.
For example, we've heard stories of a lack of potable water for volunteers (which can have serious health consequences) or accommodation without windows (which was actually considered as luxury, since no windows meant no sun coming in with the heat!).
President Clinton said that such programs provide an effective solution where a lack of access to potable drinking water leads to 80percentt of the diseases from which Rwandans suffer.
In this study, we observed that patients with low socio-economic status, assessed by living in an informal dwelling, the absence of a TV or lack of potable water at home were each associated with incomplete adherence although these did not retain significance in the final model, possibly because of the small sample size.
Lack of infrastructure and economic development has made many parts of sub-Saharan Africa vulnerable to cholera, a disease associated with lack of potable water and poor sanitation.
Katrina unleashed gut diseases triggered by E. coli and a lack of safe food and potable water.
Then came cholera, which is a disease of poverty — abysmal sanitation and lack of potable water can create an epidemic.
