Potable water
What Potable water means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Water that is safe to drink, with acceptable levels of dissolved substances and microbes, but not necessarily pure in the chemical sense.
Water that is safe to drink, containing dissolved substances but with levels of microbes and contaminants low enough not to harm health.
Treated water that is safe to drink, produced from fresh water sources by removing insoluble material and then killing microbes.
Water that is safe to drink, containing sufficiently low levels of dissolved salts and microbes.
Water that is safe to drink, with sufficiently low levels of dissolved salts and microbes.
Water that is safe to drink, with suitably low levels of dissolved salts and microbes.
Topics that use Potable water
- Potable water (AQA GCSE)
- Waste water treatment (AQA GCSE)
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