Sentence examples for are potable from inspiring English sources

Officials in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are trying to test and confirm that water supplies are potable, but they say it might take several days more.

Our desperate problem has been and will be potable water.

Just 1 percent of the world's water is potable.

He's built some bridges, but our measure of development is potable water.

He could be doused in water but it had to be potable.

Not all India's groundwater is potable anyway; in places, it is getting seriously polluted.

The frigid water of the Metolius is so clear and pure that it is potable.

Nowadays Emma Watson is set to make a lot more lemonade, and as I left her I thought: I damn well hope it's potable — then checked myself.

Dr. Tauxe of the Centers for Disease Control said: "As far as I know there is not a mandatory requirement that water used to rinse or ice or wash vegetables be potable.

Since that time there has been continuous research on the microbiology of public water supplies, including the development of laboratory procedures to determine whether the water is potable, or safe for human consumption.

The water doesn't have to be potable.