Breathe
To drink
Both terms in one sentence
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He can breathe underwater, yet he still needs fresh water to drink, like an ordinary human.
Source: Film / Waterworld - Through his apparently being one of the luckiest guys in the world, he survived, and later compared trying to breathe during the ordeal to trying to drink from a firehose.
- Water would be unsafe to drink unless filtered extremely well (as water is largely unaffected by radiation by itself, but radioactive particles in the water could still do some damage), food would be unsafe to eat, and in many cases, the air would be unsafe to breathe.
Source: Apocalypse How / Class 3a
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