Of course, water is also useful for drinking, hygiene, irrigation and extracting oxygen for the Mars colonies Jain, Elon Musk, and others are so keen on creating.
In terms of % contribution, the fluoride level >1 was observed in 41% at 14 locations (Table 1; W6, W10 W14–W18, W20 W250–W34, W34) and 20% of the groundwater has more than 1.5 mg L−1 of fluoride at seven locations (Table 1; W6, W10 W11, W18, W22, W24, which whish is not useful for drinking purpose.
Was too busy doing other really useful things (drinking coffee, life drawing, musical theater, crying).
We also used self-reporting of intention to drink in a future pregnancy which is a useful predictor of drinking in pregnancy [ 37], but is not the same as actually drinking during pregnancy.
In addition to their use in screening, biomarkers are also clinically useful for monitoring drinking behavior after brief intervention and treatment.
Wine lists have yet to get all "touchy feely" the way they have in the States, but sommeliers use a locals-only lingo that's useful for those drinking Down Under.
These pieces may occasionally mimic the shapes of useful objects, like drinking cups, but they were never meant to be utilitarian.
From a baroque, leaf-cut decanter by Ludwig Lobmeyr to the thin, attenuated muslin glass forms that have dominated the past half century, Muehling primarily chose pieces meant for celebration and ritual; the great thing about Lobmeyr, he says, is "they may be opulent and insanely expensive, but for the most part the pieces are useful and functional drinking glasses".
The STLFB is an easy-to-administer measure of variations in alcohol intake, which can be useful for understanding drinking behavior.
These findings may be useful in developing drinking water guidelines and studying other communities where PFOA is manufactured.
