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.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What drinking water is.
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.
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.
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.
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
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Physical world and living systems
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- PHY
- Domain
- PHY.MAT
- Other names and narrower kinds
- crushed ice, La Croix Sparkling Water, carbonated water, hard seltzer, Oxygenated water, table water, Otin River, flat water, Water supply and sanitation in the Netherlands, Water supply and sanitation in Bangladesh, rusty water, Your Water
What it is Filled
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.
Why it exists Filled
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.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Meets health standards
- Public or packaged supply
- Global access gap
- Subject to advisories
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Declare water safe to drink without test results or an authority's statement.
- Downplay contamination such as lead or microbial pollution reported for a supply.
- Present alcoholic or sweetened beverages as drinking water.
- Interfere with treatment, dosing or monitoring equipment it is not authorized to operate.
Only with a human decision
- Issuing or lifting an advisory about a water supply.
- Cutting off drinking water to a household.
May
- Report water quality results and advisories from the supplier or public health authority, with their date.
- Remind users to follow boil water notices and point them to official guidance.
Moral aspects Filled
- Safe drinking water is a human right, and failures fall hardest on the poor and on infants.
- Contamination often goes unseen, so honesty in reporting it is critical.
Who is affected
- Households and consumers
- Infants and pregnant people
- Communities without piped water
Owners Filled
Steward
The water supplier for piped and bottled water, overseen by public health and drinking water regulators.
Master systems
- Water supplier quality monitoring records
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q29053744 - registry parent class
- Q40050 - registry parent class
related
- drink - in registry terms
- WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality - as a reference
- carbonated water
- hard seltzer - misfiled alcoholic alias
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.drinking-water
- Wikidata: Q7892 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7892)
Direct properties required Filled
- 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
Recognition required Filled
- 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
- Clear water from taps, wells, bottles or dispensers.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain quality standards
- relay treatment and access
- flag misfiled aliases
- route advisories and contamination concerns
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Ignoring boil water advisories
- Lead and other contamination
- Treating alcoholic seltzers as water
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- WHO Guidelines for Drinking-water Quality
- EU Drinking Water Directive 2020/2184
- US Safe Drinking Water Act
Context of use required Filled
- Safe water for drinking and food preparation.
- piped treated water
- groundwater and well water
- bottled still and sparkling water
- table water
- emergency water supplies
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q7892: drinking water - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Drinking water - general description of the item
Open questions
- 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?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q7892/spec.json