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Recent Examples of undrinkable
The latest New York news Image Road salt and the city’s drinking water: A new environmental report finds that rising salt levels in New York City’s water supply could make some of it undrinkable by the beginning of the next century.
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James Barron, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Therefore, this water becomes undrinkable without processing, increasing the need for desalinization and affecting the water's taste.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
But when devastating wildfires ravaged the West Coast in September 2020, gallons of wine were left undrinkable.
—Eric Noll, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2024
The storm cut off 70% of Asheville’s water supply, and more than 40% of private wells were declared undrinkable.
—Micheline Maynard, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
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James Barron, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
Therefore, this water becomes undrinkable without processing, increasing the need for desalinization and affecting the water's taste.
—Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
But when devastating wildfires ravaged the West Coast in September 2020, gallons of wine were left undrinkable.
—Eric Noll, ABC News, 19 Dec. 2024
The storm cut off 70% of Asheville’s water supply, and more than 40% of private wells were declared undrinkable.
—Micheline Maynard, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for undrinkable
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In communities without clean water, families often burn wood to boil contaminated water, contributing to both deforestation and emissions.—
Sivan Yaari,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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The Great Lakes Legacy Act — which aims to address areas of concern in the basin where longtime industrial contamination has caused environmental degradation — has funded 34 remediation projects across the region since 2004, removing or capping almost 7 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment.—
Adriana Pérez,
Chicago Tribune,
31 Aug. 2025
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Another, paradoxical, factor that could be contributing to this rise is our steadily less polluted atmosphere.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
5 Sep. 2025
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The port planned to use it to clean up and remediate polluted areas, build facilities for handling the turbine parts, dredge the waterway and build a larger wharf capable of handling pieces of steel longer than a football field.—
Lauren Sommer,
NPR,
31 Aug. 2025
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How toxic workplaces emerge When managers fail to set clear expectations, communicate openly and model respectful behavior, dysfunction spreads and a toxic workplace is born.—
Alora Bopray,
USA Today,
3 Sep. 2025
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Europe's decision to ban the chemical for cosmetic use means that nail salon clients living within the bloc will no longer have their fingernails coated in potentially toxic TPO products.—
Chloe Mayer,
MSNBC Newsweek,
2 Sep. 2025
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Wolf spider bites are not poisonous and won't cause sores or body-wide symptoms from its venom.—
Carrie Madormo,
Health,
6 Sep. 2025
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This unconstitutional partisan politicization is poisonous to unit morale and discipline with long-term consequences for who serves and why.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Sep. 2025
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“Undrinkable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/undrinkable. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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