Talk:Water supply
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[edit] Merging with other sites
I made some of the suggested improvements and added a few sources. Feedback is welcome.--Mschiffler 15:51, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
- Water supply means also supply with water in other qualities (e.g. industrial water or water for firefighting). So it is better not to merge the two articles.--Engelbaet 11:22, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- Industrial water supply (which is usually self-supplied by direct abstraction from wells or rivers) is indeed different from what the article on "water supply" covers. Maybe the term "municipal water supply" would be more accurate. This would include water use for firefighting, since water hydrants in almost all cases draw water of drinking water quality from the same municipal water system that provides drinking water. "Tap water" thus should definitely be merged with (municipal) "water supply". "Drinking water" indeed is broader, since it also includes "bottled water", but that is so far not reflected in the article on "drinking water". It's a bit tricky. I will wait for some more reactions.--Mschiffler 21:19, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- For large plants and industrial parks, especially in chemical industry, the industrial water supplier has to supply often more than three different qualities of water (coolant water, desalinated process water, boiler feed water or purified water for pharmaceutical production) which is distributed with networks. (Cf. e.g. http://en.investteda.org/aboutteda/sections/chemicalpark/default.htm;
- http://www.mce-ag.com/industrie/textde/gesamt_produkte0103_e.htm ). The article's headword is broader than the article at the moment. As far as I know from my German Wikipedia experiences it makes sense to adapt the article to its headword (and not the other way).--Engelbaet 14:34, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
- These are all good points. I will go ahead and creat an article called "Public water supply" (oeffentliche Trinkwasserversorgung) and move relevant information to that article, while clearly stating in the article on "water supply" that it covers both "public water supply" and self-supply by industries (which indeed use water of various qualities and provide the necessary treatment). By the way, I also created an entry Public water supply and sanitation in Germany. I'd be glad to have it peer-reviewed by more experts in the field.--Mschiffler 03:39, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
- Industrial water supply (which is usually self-supplied by direct abstraction from wells or rivers) is indeed different from what the article on "water supply" covers. Maybe the term "municipal water supply" would be more accurate. This would include water use for firefighting, since water hydrants in almost all cases draw water of drinking water quality from the same municipal water system that provides drinking water. "Tap water" thus should definitely be merged with (municipal) "water supply". "Drinking water" indeed is broader, since it also includes "bottled water", but that is so far not reflected in the article on "drinking water". It's a bit tricky. I will wait for some more reactions.--Mschiffler 21:19, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Parochialism
This article is very US centric. I guess we can do several things to rectify this but the most blatant examples are the quoted examples of water supply. Metering is not far benhind - this isn't actually how the majority of the world pays for its water. I propose to delete this section and replace with more generic text with perhaps a few examples from across the world. Anone disagree ? Velela 19:28, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
- It's good to not be focused on one country... I'd be inclined to add more info, and perhaps trim back the US info, rather than actually deleting it all... perhaps do it step-by-step, adding your material, and then see if the old material is useful to have in the article. --Singkong2005 ยท talk 10:00, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
- I agree with Sinkong. I will go ahead and add some more material, improve the structure of the article and cut back on the US examples which I would suggest to move to a separate entry such as "Water supply in the USA". Also, sources should be added to the extent possible.--Mschiffler 03:36, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
