'potable'
Submarine cables are only suitable for use under water, that is what they are made for.
3% is fresh, but 1% is for drinking.
Lakes and possibly mountain streams (if they qualify as "bodies of water") could be the source of your drinking water.
Answer Drinking water is good for you. Salt water is salty but it makes you drink a lot. Answer Drinking ocean water is not reccommended. It is not very clean, so you could get ill from it. Also, because it is so salty, it can cause problems for your body. Your body needs water with much less salt in it
3% of the earths water is freshwater.
river water isn't suitable for drinking because it isn't clean
Potable water
'Potable' is usually used as such, referring mainly to water.
It means that the water or liquid is safe to drink.
Purity.
Pure Water(pharmaceutical grade) does not have all of the nutrients in it that is necessary for humans to consume.
Potable water is water that is safe for consumption. Non potable water has not been examined or properly treated, though may be used for other purposes besides drinking.
boiling chlorination ultra-violet radiation ozonation
No, because according to the definition of beverage which is "any liquid suitable for drinking" and this excludes water. so nO
Potable, according to dictionary.com, means "fit or suitable for drinking."
If it supplied "for drinking" then the citizen of any country would have obvious legal redress if the water thus supplied proven to be unfit to drink. However in some countries the supplied tap water is NOT advertised as "fit for drinking" and needs to be boiled. In this instance the water supplied to citizens would not be suitable for human consumption.
An untapped water source refers to a source, such as a lake or spring, of water, often suitable for drinking, that has not yet been exploited to get water from it.