drinking water
noun
: water that is clean enough for people to drink
Pollution is seeping into our drinking water.
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Avoid keeping fruit drinks or soda readily available so your kids grow accustomed to drinking water instead.
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Fred Sassani, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
And currently, nine million homes have drinking water that still runs through lead pipes—many of these homes are in BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, or people of color) or low-income communities.
—Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 21 Oct. 2024
Adding low levels of fluoride—a naturally occurring mineral found in many foods—to drinking water has long been considered one of the greatest public health achievements of the last century and has been recommended by the U.S. Public Health Service since 1962.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
More than half of Californians and nearly 75% of U.S. residents live in communities where fluoride has been added to drinking water to prevent tooth decay, an intervention hailed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control as one of the 20th century’s greatest public health achievements.
—Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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Fred Sassani, Austin American-Statesman, 22 Nov. 2024
And currently, nine million homes have drinking water that still runs through lead pipes—many of these homes are in BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, or people of color) or low-income communities.
—Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 21 Oct. 2024
Adding low levels of fluoride—a naturally occurring mineral found in many foods—to drinking water has long been considered one of the greatest public health achievements of the last century and has been recommended by the U.S. Public Health Service since 1962.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
More than half of Californians and nearly 75% of U.S. residents live in communities where fluoride has been added to drinking water to prevent tooth decay, an intervention hailed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control as one of the 20th century’s greatest public health achievements.
—Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024
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“Drinking water.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/drinking%20water. Accessed 2 Dec. 2024.
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