drinking water
Let an agent explain drinking water, relay quality standards, treatment, access data and advisories from WHO and regulator sources, describe the named waters and flag misfiled aliases including the alcoholic one, route contamination concerns to local authorities, and distinguish drinking water from raw water, mineral water as a legal category, alcoholic seltzers and recreational water.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain drinking water, relay quality standards, treatment, access data and advisories from WHO and regulator sources, describe the named waters and flag misfiled aliases including the alcoholic one, route contamination concerns to local authorities, and distinguish drinking water from raw water, mineral water as a legal category, alcoholic seltzers and recreational water.
Water safe for human consumption, known as potable water, supplied through treated public systems, wells and springs or as bottled and packaged waters such as still, carbonated and table waters, meeting quality standards such as the WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality; WHO and UNICEF report that billions of people still lack safely managed drinking water, a target of Sustainable Development Goal 6.1. The registry aliases include crushed ice, a branded sparkling water, oxygenated water as a marketed product and hard seltzer, an alcoholic drink, which are not drinking water categories and appear misfiled. Boil water and do-not-drink advisories must be followed.
What it is for: Safe water for drinking and food preparation.
It can be explain quality standards; relay treatment and access; flag misfiled aliases; route advisories and contamination concerns.
Distinguishing features
Meets health standards
Public or packaged supply
Global access gap
Subject to advisories
What it looks like
Clear water from taps, wells, bottles or dispensers.
Physical character
WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality: 4th edition with addenda note
SDG target: 6.1 universal safe drinking water by 2030 note
people lacking safely managed drinking water: about 2 billion people - WHO/UNICEF JMP, check latest report
How it is recognised
Water safe for human consumption
Crushed ice, La Croix Sparkling Water, carbonated water, hard seltzer, oxygenated water, table water
Raw water is untreated; mineral water is a legal bottled category; hard seltzer contains alcohol; recreational water is for swimming
Related models
is a kind of - in registry terms
is regulated by - as a reference
includes -
is contrasted with - misfiled alcoholic alias
In practice
Families and kinds
piped treated water
groundwater and well water
bottled still and sparkling water
table water
emergency water supplies
Standards and regulation
WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality
EU Drinking Water Directive 2020/2184
US Safe Drinking Water Act
Failure modes and hazards
Ignoring boil water advisories
Lead and other contamination
Treating alcoholic seltzers as water
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.drinking-water
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What drinking water is.
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
Definition
Definition.
- What is drinking water, and how does it differ from raw water, mineral water, alcoholic seltzers and recreational water? definition
- Is there a boil water or do-not-drink advisory, or water that looks, smells or tastes wrong, in which case follow local authority advice? boundary
Aliases
Named products and misfiled aliases.
Aliases
Aliases.
- What are table water, carbonated and oxygenated waters, crushed ice and hard seltzer, and why do some not belong here? definition
- Which entry fits the specific product? action
Quality Quality and treatment.
Regulation.
Standards
Standards.
Standards
Standards.
- What do WHO guidelines and national rules require for safe water? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Treatment
Treatment.
Treatment
Treatment.
- How is water treated by filtration, disinfection and monitoring? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Access Access and equity.
Attribution.
Global
Global access.
Global
Global.
- What do WHO and UNICEF report about access to safely managed drinking water? measurement
- Which entry fits Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply? action
Contamination
Contamination crises.
Contamination
Contamination.
- What lessons came from contamination crises such as Flint, with findings attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral and attributed? boundary
Context Household and emergencies.
Context.
Emergency
Emergency water.
Emergency
Emergency.
- How can households make water safe in emergencies, as health authorities advise? provenance
- Which entry fits water purification? action
Bottled
Bottled versus tap.
Bottled
Bottled.
- How do bottled and tap water compare in regulation and environmental impact? provenance
- Which entry fits bottled water? action
What the second pass must settle
- The registry aliases hard seltzer, crushed ice and brand names should be moved to their own entries
- How should WHO and JMP data be linked and kept current?
- Should table water be a separate entry?