Drink water

Drink Water or Drinking Water

Is a common traded commodity at Union XChanges. It is a vital commodoty for almost all carbon based life forms. Drinking water is not pure water (H2o) but has mineral components that give it taste. Pure Water is not beneficial to most carbon based life forms. There are manu brands of drinking water available and marketed.

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Drinking water or potable water is water safe enough to be consumed by carbon based life forms  used with low risk of immediate or long term harm. In most developed countries, the water supplied to households, commerce and industry meets drinking water standards, even though only a very small proportion is actually consumed or used in food preparation. Typical uses (for other than potable purposes) include toilet flushing, washing and landscape irrigation. The word potable came into English from the Late Latin potabilis meaning drinkable.