drinking water

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drinking water

water reserved or suitable for drinking

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drinking water - water suitable for drinking

beverage, drinkable, potable, drink - any liquid suitable for drinking; "may I take your beverage order?"

water - a liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants; "he asked for a drink of water"

bottled water - drinking water (often spring water) that is put into bottles and offered for sale

sugar water - water sweetened with sugar

ice water - water served ice-cold or with ice

carbonated water, club soda, soda water, sparkling water, seltzer - effervescent beverage artificially charged with carbon dioxide

mineral water - water naturally or artificially impregnated with mineral salts or gasses; often effervescent; often used therapeutically

Translations

مَاءٌ لِلشُّرْب

pitná voda

drikkevand

trinkakvo

juomavesi

pitka voda

ivóvíz

acqua potabile

飲料水

음료수

drinkwater

drikkevann

woda do piciawoda pitna

água potável

apă potabilă

питьевая вода

pitná voda

dricksvatten

น้ำดื่ม

içme suyu

nước uống

饮用水

drinking water

n → acqua potabile

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

drinking water

→ مَاءٌ لِلشُّرْب pitná voda drikkevand Trinkwasser πόσιμο νερό agua potable juomavesi eau potable pitka voda acqua potabile 飲料水 음료수 drinkwater drikkevann woda pitna água potável питьевая вода dricksvatten น้ำดื่ม içme suyu nước uống 饮用水

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Nevertheless, I cannot help thinking that if we would put an improved breed of polliwogs in our drinking water, construct shallower roadways, groom the street cows, offer the stranger within our gates a free choice between the poniard and the potion, and relinquish our private system of morals, the other measures of public safety would be needless."

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"It is not great, after all," retorted Kennedy; "and if I were never again to have the pleasure of drinking water, I should agree on condition that I should never be deprived of it."

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Yet men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries; and I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

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I do not know, but I think they used that tank between the rooms to draw drinking water from; that did not occur to me, however, until I had dipped my baking head far down into its cool depths.

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They supplied her with drinking water and with food.

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"It is time," said the other, "since with toil I bore you here through the forest, for twelve days you have lain without sense, drinking water only.

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Well, then, at the end of a month, when drinking water from the same carafe, you would kill the person who drank with you, without your perceiving, otherwise than from slight inconvenience, that there was any poisonous substance mingled with this water."

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Refuting a news item published in a section of press, Executive Engineer PHE said PHE department was mandated for provision of clean drinking water and sanitation facilities to general public in rural areas of KP province.

No link between waterborne diseases, clean drinking water: PHE clarifies

The report named India, Japan, Lebanon, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines, Senegal, Turkey and Gaza among those already experiencing unsafe levels of nitrates in drinking water.

World Bank warns of 'invisible water crisis'

Tajikistan's national program on improvement access of population to safe drinking water that was launched in 2008 will conclude in 2020.

TJS 10 billion reportedly needed to fully provide Tajikistan's population with safe drinking water

Abdul Aleem Memon, PSQCA team cracked down against Illegal / Substandard Products of Bottled Drinking Water / R.O.