This tap water is not potable; it's polluted.

这自来水不能用；它被污染了。

There are no exact federal rules for direct potable reuse.

对于重复使用接用水有确切的联邦规定。

Their statistical analyses pointed toward potable water, which Lipo says made sense.

他们的统计分析指向了用水，利波说这有理的。

The report will highlight how the threat to potable water and breathable air needs urgent addressing.

该报告将着重强调如何对用水和可呼吸空气的威胁进行紧急处理。

Florida, California and Arizona are now working on rules for direct potable water reuse.

佛罗里达州、加利福尼亚州和亚利桑那州目前正在制定重复使用接用水的规定。

Researchers are investigating smaller scale technologies to recycle sewage into potable water on site.

研究人员正在研究小规模的技术，以便在现场将污水回收为用水。

Electricity and potable water were made accessible.

提供了电力和用水。

There were no paved roads, no potable water, no electricity.

有铺好的路，有用水，也有电。

" Potable" means something you can drink, something that is safe to drink.

“可用”指您可以用的东西，可以安全用的东西。

You don't know if that's potable.

你不知那否适合用。

This was clean, potable water, not something already cast away in a sopping towel.

这干净的用水，而不已经用湿毛巾丢弃的水。

The park is managed in part by a grassroots community organization and the protected area supplies local communities with potable water.

公园一部分由基层社区组织管理，保护区为当地社区提供用水。

Greg Fisher of Denver Water was concerned about the time it takes to build a large direct potable reuse system.

丹佛水公司的格雷格·费舍尔担心建造一个大型接用水再利用系统所需要的时间。

This approach is called direct potable reuse, but even though it's perfectly healthy, there's still some concern with such a direct system.

这个方法叫做“接用循环”，但即便它非常健康，这么接的系统仍存在着少些问题。

Indirect potable reuse is the process used in Singapore, and it's become an increasingly common lifeline for arid regions in the US.

“间接用循环”新加坡采用的方法，它也在美国的干燥地区起到愈加重要的作用。

Instead, most places opt for indirect potable reuse, where the treated wastewater is discharged to an environmental buffer, such as a reservoir, lake, wetland, or groundwater aquifer.

相反，大多数地区采用“间接用循环”，经处理的污水被排放到外部的储水地点，例如水库、湖泊、湿地或地下水层。

" If you've built a big direct potable reuse system and you don't have it even for a few years, that causes some problems, " he said.

“如果你建立了一个大型的接用水回收系统，但你甚至几年都有使用它，这就会导致一些问题。”

It wasn’t an untested idea - water recycling plants in Namibia, Singapore, and even Southern California had been churning out clean, potable water for years using the same technology.

这不一个未经检验的想法— — 多年来， 纳米比亚、新加坡甚至南加州的水回收厂一在使用相同的技术生产清洁的用水。

By the year 2050, one in three people on the planet will live in one of these places without potable water, adequate sanitation and in condition of extreme poverty.

到 2050 年，地球上三分之一的人将生活在这些地方之一，有用水、有足够的卫生设施并且处于极端贫困状态。

Should the move be approved in a final vote in November, the western state would become the first in the United States to adopt direct potable reuse rules, state and federal officials say.

州和联邦官员表示，如果这项举措在11月的最终投票中获得通过，这个西部州将成为美国第一个采用接使用重复用水规则的州。