Sentence examples for something potable from inspiring English sources

But on Friday, Procter & Gamble debuted a brand-new plan to package their detergent and it, uh, also shares a striking resemblance to something potable.

Now I am going to go to the Harris Teeter and see if it's been entirely ransacked or if there might be something edible and/or potable to bring home and put in the kitchen against the possibility of Hurricane Sandy ushering in a new Dark Age.

He is able to ignite the vapor from the murky water, and fumes visibly steam over the edge of its container -- certainly not something anyone would judge as potable.

Storm runoff and sewage effluent are the sustainable raw materials of a potable water supply, not something to be thrown away because of a "yuck" factor.

But something about this confluence, the way I had to bring potable water to my family from two hours north, the strange look of the landscape wreathed in rain and mist, the stench of a chemical that was housed directly upstream from the water company -- something about all of that made me absolutely buoyant in my rage.

Survivors will have no choice but to forage for sustenance – potable water, non-perishable foods and whenever possible, a little bitty something to puff on.

LETH produces something called the Biosphere System, a mobile power plant that supposedly generates 5 megawatts of power and 210,000 liters of potable drinking water an hour from municipal waste.

LETH produces something called the Biosphere System, a mobile power plant that supposedly generates 5 megawatts of power and 55,000 gallons of potable drinking water an hour from municipal waste.

Consider desalination, which makes seawater potable.

"We lost our potable," he said sadly.

Charge your phones, prepare potable water.