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If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Meaning of "drinking water" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DRINKING WATER

drinking water play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DRINKING WATER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Drinking water is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DRINKING WATER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

drinking water

Drinking water

Drinking water or potable water is water safe enough to be consumed by humans or used with low risk of immediate or long term harm. In most developed countries, the water supplied to households, commerce and industry meets drinking water standards, even though only a very small proportion is actually consumed or used in food preparation. Typical uses include toilet flushing, washing and landscape irrigation. The word potable came into English from the Late Latin potabilis meaning drinkable. Over large parts of the world, humans have inadequate access to potable water and use sources contaminated with disease vectors, pathogens or unacceptable levels of toxins or suspended solids. Drinking or using such water in food preparation leads to widespread acute and chronic illnesses and is a major cause of death and misery in many countries. Reduction of waterborne diseases is a major public health goal in developing countries. Water has always been an important and life-sustaining drink to humans and is essential to the survival of most other organisms. Excluding fat, water composes approximately 70% of the human body by mass.

Definition of drinking water in the English dictionary

The definition of drinking water in the dictionary is water reserved or suitable for drinking.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DRINKING WATER

drink-drive limit
drink-driver
drink-driving
drinkability
drinkable
drinkableness
drinkably
drinker
drinker moth
drinking
drinking chocolate
drinking fountain
drinking problem
drinking song
drinking straw
drinking trough
drinking-up time
drinks
drinks cabinet
drinks party

WORDS THAT END LIKE DRINKING WATER

above the water
bath water
blackwater
blood is thicker than water
bottled water
distilled water
fresh water
freshwater
Greater
holy water
in deep water
in hot water
like a fish out of water
rainwater
salt water
saltwater
sweetwater
test the water
underwater
wastewater
water

Synonyms and antonyms of drinking water in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «drinking water» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DRINKING WATER

Find out the translation of drinking water to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of drinking water from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «drinking water» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

饮用水
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

agua potable
570 millions of speakers

English

drinking water
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

पीने का पानी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مَاءٌ لِلشُّرْب
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

питьевая вода
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

água potável
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

পানি পান করছি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

eau potable
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

air minuman
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Trinkwasser
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

飲料水
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

음료수
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Ngombe banyu
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nước uống
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குடிநீர்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पिण्याचे पाणी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

içme suyu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

acqua potabile
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

woda pitna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

питна вода
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

apă potabilă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πόσιμο νερό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

drinkwater
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dricksvatten
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

drikkevann
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of drinking water

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DRINKING WATER»

The term «drinking water» is very widely used and occupies the 18.761 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DRINKING WATER» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «drinking water» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «drinking water» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about drinking water

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10 QUOTES WITH «DRINKING WATER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word drinking water.
1
Aeschylus
By polluting clear water with slime you will never find good drinking water.
2
Bryan Cranston
It's funny, I do try to maintain health. I started doing Bikram yoga which is that hothouse yoga, the 105 degrees yoga for 90 minutes. It's great, you purge out all the sweat and you're drinking water.
3
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.
4
Charles Duhigg
It is often difficult to definitively link a specific instance of disease to one particular cause, like water pollution. Even when tests show that drinking water is polluted, it can be hard to pinpoint the source of the contamination.
5
Charles Duhigg
Drinking water that does not meet a federal health guideline will not necessarily make someone ill. Many contaminants are hazardous only if consumed for years. And some researchers argue that even toxic chemicals, when consumed at extremely low doses over long periods, pose few risks.
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Charles Duhigg
For years, agency officials said that atrazine in drinking water posed almost no risk to humans or the environment.
7
Helene D. Gayle
The more you look into health and health inequalities, you realize that a lot of it is not due to a particular disease - it's really linked to underlying societal issues such as poverty, inequity, lack of access to safe drinking water and housing. And these are all the things we focus on at CARE.
8
Stephanie Herseth
I represent nine sovereign Sioux tribes. In South Dakota, some of the tribes are in the most remote, rural areas of the country. They lack essential infrastructure. Some communities don't even have clean drinking water.
9
Bjorn Lomborg
My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.
10
Bjorn Lomborg
The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DRINKING WATER»

Discover the use of drinking water in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to drinking water and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Safe Drinking Water: Lessons from Recent Outbreaks in ...
The book adopts a theme of 'converting hindsight into foresight', to inform drinking-water and health professionals including operators, managers, engineers, chemists and microbiologists, regulators, as well as undergraduates and graduates ...
Steve E. Hrudey, Elizabeth J. Hrudey, 2004
2
Handbook of Drinking Water Quality
In a concise, easy-to-use format, Handbook of Drinking Water Quality, Second Edition, describes Data and guidelines from the World Health Organization and the European Community used to develop drinking water standards U.S. drinking water ...
John DeZuane, 1997
3
Drinking Water Quality: Problems and Solutions
Since the first edition of this book was published, water companies and regulators have been presented with numerous new challenges - global warming has seriously affected water supplies and water quality; advances in chemical and microbial ...
N. F. Gray, 2008
4
Safe Drinking Water Act
This new book covers drinking water regulations such as disinfectant by-products, synthetic organics, inorganic chemicals, microbiological contaminants, volatile organic chemicals, radionuclides, fluoride, toxicological approaches to ...
Edward J. Calabrese, 1989
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Radon, Radium, and Uranium in Drinking Water
With new regulations for radionuclides in drinking water, this volume will be valuable for understanding where radionuclides come from, how their prescence is determined, where humans come in contact with them, health effects consequences ...
C. Richard Cothern, 1990
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The Drinking Water Book: How to Eliminate Harmful Toxins ...
THE DRINKING WATER BOOK takes a level-headed look at the serious issues surrounding America's drinking water supply.
Colin Ingram, 2011
7
The Drinking Water Handbook, Second Edition
What’s New in this Edition Updates to every chapter, reflecting advances in the field Expanded material on sick water related to PPCPs Discussion of the latest treatment technologies Coverage of individual contaminants Current regulations ...
Frank R. Spellman, Joanne E. Drinan, 2012
8
Drinking Water
Text and photographs show what water does in the body and why it is essential to our health.
Helen Frost, Gail Saunders-Smith, 2000
9
Drinking Water Quality Management from Catchment to ...
Drinking Water Quality Management from Catchment to Consumer is a best practice book that brings together the experience of network members provides a practical guide to help utilities worldwide to develop improved water quality management.
Bob Breach, 2011
10
Cyanobacterial Toxins of Drinking Water Supplies
It discusses effective methods of prevention, mitigation, and remediation of cyanobacterial blooms in reservoirs. The book presents novel and traditional approaches to water treatment for the elimination of these toxins.
Ian Robert Falconer, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DRINKING WATER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term drinking water is used in the context of the following news items.
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Drinking water crisis dominate Raichur council meeting
Claims of top officials in Raichur on the drinking water crisis stood exposed in the General Body meeting of Raichur City Municipal Council ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
2
NGT Directs Uttar Pradesh To Inspect Quality Of Drinking Water
National Green tribunal has asked State of Uttar Pradesh to inspect the quality of drinking water in district of Western Uttar Pradesh which ... «Focus News, Jul 15»
3
Health Department testing drinking water for blue green algae
So we wanted to get a better idea of what kinds of toxins were present in the finished and the raw drinking water,” said Sarah Vose, a toxicologist with the health ... «WPTZ The Champlain Valley, Jul 15»
4
Life-changing rationale for drinking water
London - Sophie Ruffles was running her third half marathon when she decided to take a gamble and not drink during the race. “I'd queued for ... «Independent Online, Jul 15»
5
Residents complain of drinking water contamination in Erode
ERODE: Residents of ward 19 in Gobichettipalayam municipality have been urging the Erode district administration and the Municipal ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
6
DJB, NGO to turn raw sewage into safe drinking water
The DJB has partnered with charitable trust Sana to install a plant to convert raw sewage waste into safe and potable drinking water. As per ... «The Asian Age, Jul 15»
7
There's yellow drinking water in south Stafford, officials say
According to a Stafford release, the water is safe to drink and will not cause any problems, and there is no need to boil it first. But the county is ... «PotomacLocal.com, Jul 15»
8
More Problems With Drinking Water From Hoover Reservoir
Some residents on Columbus' north side are complaining about foul smelling and tasting tap water. Columbus Department of Public Utilities ... «WCBE 90.5 FM, Jul 15»
9
Lucas Co. Commissioners launch Legacy Initiative to help protect …
'Clear Water 2' will serve as a resource for both policy makers and the public on the topic of providing clean drinking water and protecting ... «Toledo News Now, Jul 15»
10
Salinas Valley Project Helps Residents Access Clean Drinking Water
Thousands of residents in rural disadvantaged communities in the Salinas Valley may soon have help avoiding drinking water from domestic ... «PublicCEO.com, Jul 15»

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