drinking water

Noun

drinking water (usually uncountable, plural drinking waters)

1. (usually) Water that is suitable or intended for ingestion by humans: potable water.
   • Near-synonym: tap water (for washing and, ideally, drinking too)
   • One day a saint, wandering in the vicinity in search of drinking water, fainted. As he regained his senses, he could hear the trickle of water running from the Pot. He drank his fill and since then the spring has never gone dry.2001, Philip E. LaMoreaux with Judy T. Tanner, Springs and Bottled Waters of the World, →ISBN, page 166

   Synonyms:

   tap water