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

Carry a windshield scraper, jumper cables, a small shovel, flashlight, cell phone, blanket and additional warm clothing, drinking water, and high-calorie non-perishable food. —Ca Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 21 Nov. 2025

These measures include efforts to roll back drinking water regulations on certain PFAS chemicals, changes to companies' reporting of PFAS chemical use, and the reinstatement of pesticides that were previously banned by different federal courts. —Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Nov. 2025

Over time, this threatens drinking water supplies and infrastructure. —Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 13 Nov. 2025

The program, which calculates values that can be used to set limits for pollutants in drinking water and cleanup levels for toxic sites, has been a frequent target of industry. —Sharon Lerner, ProPublica, 17 Oct. 2025

Rhymes for drinking water

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