Ursula Burns

The world is full of opportunities - every day there's something new that you can do. For example, you could make dirty water potable. Why does anyone not have potable water? Because it's a problem that hasn't been solved yet, but it can be.

American Businesswoman

Dean Kamen

We're working on ways to make potable water from polluted water, whether it has organics in it or salt from the ocean, at very low energy input.

American Inventor

Mainly describes the quality of water, often referring to its safety for human consumption.

Water Context

Clear water isn't always potable. Potable means it's been tested and confirmed to be safe.

Not Just Clear

Potable doesn't refer to taste. Water can taste bad but still be potable.

Not Flavor

 despite all our accomplishments, a billion people go to bed hungry in this world every day. That number's rising, and it's rising really rapidly, and it's disgraceful. And not only that, we've used our imagination to thoroughly trash this globe. Potable water, arable land, rainforests, oil,

The danger of science...

 that this plastic bag if I put it into a filthy puddle or a stream filled with coliforms and all sorts of disgusting stuff, that that filthy water will migrate through the wall of the bag by osmosis and end up inside it as pure, potable drinking water. And all of a sudden, this plastic bag

Richard Seymour: How...

 all their accomplishments a billion people go to bed hungry in this world every day that number is rising and it's rising really rapidly and it's disgraceful and not only that we've used our imagination to thoroughly trash this globe potable water arable land rain

 sea in the world it's the size of France Belgium and Holland combined it's extremely dangerous place to go nobody goes in there there's no point of of a potable water there's no permanent habitation and it's all sand not a single rocket there this is a the empty

George Steinmetz: Seeing...

 are busy figuring out how to pipe water from Libya's aquifers to quench Europe's thirst. Such is our knowledge of our water resources that many of our countries have given up on making potable water a routine presence in the lives of Africans,

Why Africa must become a...

 you're concerned about what that does to natural resources -- arable land, potable water, energy and minerals. You are also concerned about the degradation of the environment. And you worry about how man, embodied in the corporate globalist,

Economic growth has...

 where I can just turn on a tap and easily get clean, potable water, in India, the water is often contaminated. So my parents have to make sure that the water we drink is safe. However, I soon realized that not everyone is fortunate enough

A young scientist's...

 My friends and I lived close to each other, but worlds apart. I lived in a neighborhood with a museum, a library, parks, and they lived in a neighborhood with the lack of the most basic necessities, such as potable water or electricity.

Jota Samper: The...

 with clean fresh water so i'm encouraged to see drought tolerant yards appearing all over my neighborhood my local library has cut its potable water use by 90 percent and it looks stunning

The Water Crisis PIPE...

 in our lifetime but it's not about the bridges it's about Angelique in Uganda saving hours off of her walk to safe potable