[
UK
/pˈəʊtəbəl/
]
[ US /ˈpoʊtəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈpoʊtəbəɫ/ ]
NOUN
-
any liquid suitable for drinking
may I take your beverage order?
ADJECTIVE
- suitable for drinking
How To Use potable In A Sentence
- The municipality of Windhoek announced that the new Goreangab Reclamation Plant that is to supply the city with potable water is not operational as yet and the old plant has been decommissioned.
- This unit may NEVER be connected to any existing heating system or component(s) previously used with a non-potable water heating appliance.
- Around 50,000 animal and human bodies are being swept along in the flood, rendering the water impotable. ANC Daily News Briefing
- Opened in May 1998, the lodge runs on solar power, has plenty of potable water, and serves exquisite local fare.
- The report, prepared by the Environment and Heritage Department, says without freshwater solutions, the weir is the only "feasible option to secure the state's potable water supplies". NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
- Knowledge of cleanliness, sanitation, clean potable water, and basic amenities for primary health in every village is an admirable beginning.
- Leeson street, though from prolonged summer drouth and daily supply of 12 1/2 million gallons the water had fallen below the sill of the overflow weir for which reason the borough surveyor and waterworks engineer, Mr Spencer Harty, C. E., on the instructions of the waterworks committee had prohibited the use of municipal water for purposes other than those of consumption (envisaging the possibility of recourse being had to the impotable water of the Ulysses
- Apparently people from the waterworks had dug up the road to fit in new pipes, so that instead of getting potable water from reservoirs and Mother Nature largely, now I'm getting a new kind of water.
- Portable units with generators that can provide ice making, potable water, foods, and propane stoves for people to cook on.
- Backflow is an undesirable reversal of normal flow, created by back pressure or back syphonage within a potable water system.