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We can't make our own bitters, despite them being classified as "non-potable liquor" because they are undrinkable on their own and are only ever used a couple of drops at a time.
Kurt Michael Friese: Raise the Bar: An Effort to Change Some Arcane Liquor Laws Kurt Michael Friese 2011
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We can't make our own bitters, despite them being classified as "non-potable liquor" because they are undrinkable on their own and are only ever used a couple of drops at a time.
Kurt Michael Friese: Raise the Bar: An Effort to Change Some Arcane Liquor Laws Kurt Michael Friese 2011
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We can't make our own bitters, despite them being classified as "non-potable liquor" because they are undrinkable on their own and are only ever used a couple of drops at a time.
Kurt Michael Friese: Raise the Bar: An Effort to Change Some Arcane Liquor Laws Kurt Michael Friese 2011
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We can't make our own bitters, despite them being classified as "non-potable liquor" because they are undrinkable on their own and are only ever used a couple of drops at a time.
Kurt Michael Friese: Raise the Bar: An Effort to Change Some Arcane Liquor Laws Kurt Michael Friese 2011
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I recall news from a few years ago where a repair crew hooked up the wrong pipes and directed non-potable water to a bunch of homes.
Water Privatization, Continued, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The Europeans have potable and non-potable, but clean, taps, for use for human consumption and cleaning/watering respectively.
Water as a Private Good, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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It seems that, once city fathers heard that firetrucks were selling what might be non-potable water to city residents to fill their aljibes and other cisterns for residential use, they immediately ordered that this practice be halted and potable city water supplied residents as the non-potable water supplied by an arm of the municipality might be dangerous to consumers and precipitate various diseases which might reach epidemic proportions.
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It seems that, once city fathers heard that firetrucks were selling what might be non-potable water to city residents to fill their aljibes and other cisterns for residential use, they immediately ordered that this practice be halted and potable city water supplied residents as the non-potable water supplied by an arm of the municipality might be dangerous to consumers and precipitate various diseases which might reach epidemic proportions.
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After five visits to Haiti since January 2010, there has been little relief in evidence for those living under tattered tarps, frying in the sun, drowning in the rain, and drinking non-potable water.
Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti's New President Facing Specter of de Facto 'Housing Apartheid' Georgianne Nienaber 2011
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After five visits to Haiti since January 2010, there has been little relief in evidence for those living under tattered tarps, frying in the sun, drowning in the rain, and drinking non-potable water.
Georgianne Nienaber: Haiti's New President Facing Specter of de Facto 'Housing Apartheid' Georgianne Nienaber 2011
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