drinking water

noun

: water that is clean enough for people to drink

Pollution is seeping into our drinking water.

Examples of drinking water in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

While many of Duluth’s old homes also have lead service lines bringing drinking water into the home, Davis said in her 13 years of responding to EBLLs that lead in water has only been the cause of a child’s high blood lead level in two or three cases. —Jimmy Lovrien, Twin Cities, 16 Feb. 2026

Through a rigorous multibarrier treatment process, the system produces drinking water that meets or exceeds all state and federal standards and is indistinguishable in quality from Aurora’s traditional mountain water supplies. —Mike Coffman, Denver Post, 10 Feb. 2026

As a result, sewage blockages and overflows became widespread, increasing the risk of wastewater contaminating drinking water sources and heightening the likelihood of outbreaks of diarrhea, hepatitis A and other waterborne diseases in an already vulnerable community. —Sarah Ferguson, Forbes.com, 28 Jan. 2026

Kotb, Roker, and Casalengo all emphasized the importance of drinking water while fighting jet lag. —Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 27 Jan. 2026

Rhymes for drinking water

• annunciator
• imprimatur
• underwater
• backwater
• bathwater
• blackwater
• breakwater
• deepwater
• edgewater
• feedwater
• floodwater
• freshwater