drinking water
noun
: water that is clean enough for people to drink
Pollution is seeping into our drinking water.
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Studies show that drinking water before eating may reduce the number of calories consumed.
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Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 6 June 2025
What’s more, as states including Florida and Utah vote to ban the addition of fluoride to drinking water and other states consider similar bans, dentists say the oral health of children and adults will suffer.
—Alana Semuels, Time, 5 June 2025
The addition of low levels of fluoride to drinking water was long considered one of the greatest public health achievements of the last century, but Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has brought it into question, claiming fluoride is linked to a slew of health problems.
—Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 2 June 2025
Subsequent research from a project known as the Iowa Women’s Health Study found higher risk of bladder cancer and thyroid disease in women with more than four years of exposure to drinking water with nitrate levels above five milligrams per liter.
—Dave Hage, Literary Hub, 27 May 2025
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Carrie Madormo, Verywell Health, 6 June 2025
What’s more, as states including Florida and Utah vote to ban the addition of fluoride to drinking water and other states consider similar bans, dentists say the oral health of children and adults will suffer.
—Alana Semuels, Time, 5 June 2025
The addition of low levels of fluoride to drinking water was long considered one of the greatest public health achievements of the last century, but Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has brought it into question, claiming fluoride is linked to a slew of health problems.
—Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 2 June 2025
Subsequent research from a project known as the Iowa Women’s Health Study found higher risk of bladder cancer and thyroid disease in women with more than four years of exposure to drinking water with nitrate levels above five milligrams per liter.
—Dave Hage, Literary Hub, 27 May 2025
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“Drinking water.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drinking%20water. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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