• the EPA's lead and copper rule restricts allowable lead levels in drinking water to 15 parts per billion?
• the water crisis is the ongoing worldwide shortfall of drinking water, sanitation and ecological support that finds 1.1 billion people without safe water?
• while the electrical conductivity of pure water is very low, the conductivity of drinking water can be thousands of times greater?
• Cryptosporidium hominis, an obligate parasite usually spread through fecal-contaminated drinking water, is responsible for a seasonal increase in cases of cryptosporidiosis in the Netherlands in autumn?
• Ulley reservoir was sold to Rotherham council for £1 in 1980, when it was no longer needed to supply drinking water?
• Big Butte Springs, located in the Big Butte Creek watershed, produces 26,000,000 US gallons (98,000,000 L) of drinking water a day that serves 115,000 residents 30 miles (48 km) away in the Rogue Valley?
• Searsville Dam, built in 1892, currently provides no drinking water, flood control, nor hydropower, but rather it irrigates Stanford University's golf course?
• California's Owens River has been entirely diverted for irrigation and drinking water?
  

Facts on topics related to Drinking water

Azerbaijan

• Welshman Sir Gore Ouseley arranged for Azerbaijan to become part of the Russian Empire in 1814?
• Azerbaijanis live in Iran, Georgia, Turkey, Iraq and the United States, as well as Azerbaijan?
• Dushanbe riots in 1990 were sparked by the rumour that a couple of thousand Armenian refugees from Azerbaijan had been resettled to Dushanbe?
• Martyrs' Lane in Baku, Azerbaijan, is dedicated to those killed by the Red Army during Black January and later to those killed in Nagorno-Karabakh War?
• Qabala treasures, monetary treasure troves discovered in Azerbaijan, contain drachmas of Alexander the Great and denarii of four Roman Emperors?
• after being imprisoned for allegedly leading Islamic militants in Azerbaijan, Ahmad Salama Mabruk began leading a new militant group within prison?
• as Azerbaijan Commissar of Public Roads, Chingiz Ildyrym oversaw the construction of the first electrified railway in the Soviet Union?
• during one of the Caspian expeditions of the Rus, the city of Barda in Azerbaijan was saved from complete destruction only by an outbreak of dysentery among the Rus?
• during the G-8 Summit in Germany on June 7-8, Russian president Vladimir Putin offered to deploy elements of an American anti-misssile shield in Qabala Radiolocation Station in Azerbaijan instead of Poland and the Czech Republic?
• in the early 1990s, Surət Hüseynov successfully led a military coup d'état in Azerbaijan to become the Prime Minister?

Morocco

• Moroccan Elarbi Khattabi won five medals in team competitions at the World Cross Country Championships, including Morocco's first such medal, the silver in 1994?
• Moroccan alligator wrestler and circus strongman Tahar Douis set a world record by lifting 12 men weighing a total of 1,700 pounds on his shoulders?
• mellah is a walled Jewish quarter of a city in Morocco, an analogue of the European ghetto?
• Mohammed bin Hadou was a Moroccan ambassador to the court of Charles II in England in 1681–82?
• Lawrence of Arabia and Gladiator were both filmed in the ksar Aït Benhaddou in Morocco?
• Alanqa is a newly described pterosaur from Morocco which had a wingspan of up to six metres?
• US abolitionist Robert Purvis had two grandparents who were English, a grandmother kidnapped at twelve from Morocco and enslaved in Charleston, and a grandfather who was German Jewish?
• an Anglo-Moroccan alliance, developed between Elizabeth I of England and the Moroccan Sultan Ahmad al-Mansur, had an influence on at least two of Shakespeare's plays?
• despite being a widely-used garden plant on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean, Salvia interrupta can only be found in nature in the Atlas Mountains in the African country of Morocco?
• during the mid-20th century, wine from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia accounted for nearly two-thirds of all internationally traded wine?

Philippines

• 1,200 journalists, human rights advocates, and leftist activists have been killed in the Philippines as a result of Gloria Arroyo's counter-insurgency program "Oplan Bantay Laya"?
• 40,000 people were estimated to make a living from seaweed farming in the Philippines in 1997?
• 1970's Super Typhoon Joan, the largest storm of the season in size, is the strongest typhoon ever to hit the Philippines?
• 1985's only super typhoon, Super Typhoon Dot, is the sixth-most intense tropical cyclone in terms of wind speed to affect Bicol Region, Philippines between 1947 and 2004?
• footballer Edward King was honored for heroism in the Philippines and tactical skill in France and later became Commandant of the Army Command and General Staff College?
• Austin Coates's Rizal: Philippine Nationalist and Martyr is the second biography of Filipino national hero José Rizal authored by a non-Filipino?
• General Douglas MacArthur's staff threatened United States Army Lieutenant Colonel Charles S. Lawrence with court martial if he confiscated nearly 2,000 cases of food from Japanese-run firms in the Philippines, and that the stores were destroyed during the Battle of Bataan in early 1942?
• Lualhati Bautista’s Tagalog novel, Bata, Bata… Pa’no Ka Ginawa? became a film starring Vilma Santos, an actress turned first female governor of Batangas of the Philippines?
• Meralco's John F. Cotton Corporate Wellness Center was the first implementation of a corporate wellness program in the Philippines?
• Filipino basketball player Gec Chia's walk-off buzzer beater in the 2002 UAAP semifinals brought his coach Joel Banal to his knees, and he later described the shot as "a miracle"?

Egypt

• Armant is a breed of dog which originated in Egypt?
• Egypt had an active national cricket team before World War II, but only one player was a native Egyptian?
• Egypt's Fahd Armored Personnel Carrier has specialized variants ranging from an infantry fighting vehicle to a command post vehicle to deal with different threats?
• Egyptian actor C. K. Alexander composed under the pseudonyms Mario Quimber and Basheer Qadar?
• Egyptian diplomat Amr Bey picked up squash while posted in the United Kingdom and went on to win six consecutive British Open Squash Championships in the 1930s?
• Egyptian military figure and politician Youssef Seddik launched the first military procedures in the July 23 Revolution of 1952?
• Israeli pilot and peace activist Abie Nathan landed his plane in Egypt in 1966 in an attempt to deliver a message of peace to President Nasser?
• Irish television celebrity Bazil Ashmawy was born in Libya and is half Egyptian?
• British Conservative Member of Parliament Cyril Banks was friendly with Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, and left his party over the Suez Crisis?
• Abdel Latif Boghdadi resigned his position as vice president of Egypt because Nasser adopted a more Soviet Union-style system for Egypt rather than closer United States relations?

Fresh water

• Lake Pichola (pictured), an artificial fresh water lake created in 1362, is named after the nearby Picholi village in Udaipur city?
• the snakeskin gourami is one of Thailand's five most important aquacultured freshwater species?
• unlike most plesiosaurs, Leptocleidus once lived in shallow lagoon environments and likely visited brackish and fresh water systems such as the mouths of rivers?

Mineral water

• Peter of Eboli, a monk from Eboli, wrote the first book on the therapeutic properties of spa mineral waters around 1220?