The fact that our water is less than drinkable enables some firms, such as the sellers of bottled water, to become more profitable.
Does anybody really believe that the "broth" will be anything like drinkable when we have got it?
We are now engaged in discussing this with the parties concerned in the hope and anticipation of being able to give the public a better and more drinkable beer.
The distributors, on the other hand, favoured pasteurization as a means of prolonging very considerably the period for keeping milk in a drinkable and relatively wholesome condition.
As the result of those negotiations, practically the whole of the patent stills have been out of action in regard to the making of drinkable spirits.
To his astonishment he found it drinkable.
Previously this field was dominated by narrow assessments of each separate water undertaking, which was quite simply how to get drinkable water at the lowest possible cost.
I understand that huge quantities are in fact used for cooling, but it is mostly seawater or brackish water from estuaries: comparatively little drinkable water is used.