potable• The fact that a water is potable does not, however, necessarily make it suitable for textilepurposes.• This provides for a supply of very good quality water to the mainriver, which itself is used as potable supply.• There is no potable water, except what you carry with you, and the equatorialsun beats down with fierceintensity.• But sewage systems are not the only non-potable water systems cross-connected to the potable water supply.• Bread, it would appear, is an indispensablefoodstuff, as necessary to life as potable water.• Reconstituted and recombined milk and milk products are those that result from the recombining of milk constituents with potable water.
Originpotable
(1400-1500)Late Latinpotabilis, from Latinpotare“to drink”