Examples from literature

• Also, floodwater may contain bacteria that cause diseases and that can affect our drinking water. 
• In some countries, more than 10 percent of the people can’t get any clean drinking water. 
• Much of the drinking water in Antarctica is made from seawater. 
• The dirty water ran through the streets and sometimes went into the drinking water. 
• Citizens have been warned to boil all drinking water and to bury refuse. 
• Even the well from which drinking water was obtained was polluted. 
• Pure drinking water is supplied for its hundreds of inhabitants. 
• There were times when they lacked good drinking water, which made bad matters worse. 
• Who decides where the drinking water for the town shall come from?