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Record W3031015574 · doi:10.22606/epp.2020.52001

Is Our Water Safe To Drink?

2020· article· en· W3031015574 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Frederick Bloetscher, Daniel E. Meeroff

Bibliographic record

VenueEnvironmental Pollution and Protection · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicFecal contamination and water quality
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsScrutinyBusinessPublic healthStewardship (theology)LiabilityWelfareEnvironmental healthMedicinePolitical scienceFinanceLawNursing

Abstract

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Protection of the public health is the highest priority of any water system.For over 100 years, improvements to water treatment has decreased the number of deaths related to waterborne illness.For the most part in the United States and Canada, the risk of waterborne illness from a public water system is rare.However, when a failure occurs, the public mandates that come under scrutiny include the stewardship of the system (whether the responsibilities to protect public health, safety and welfare were met), the condition of the system (whether it has been maintained or allowed to incur deterioration and deferred maintenance) and operations practices (were the operations guidelines followed).Lawyers sue when they believe these mandates have not been met, that local officials have been poor stewards, or negligence exists.Failure to protect the public health, safety and welfare, creates a lot of legal liability for someone.Yet much can be learned from recent events concerning waterborne illness and public health risks, while identifying some guidelines to protect water systems from risk can be developed.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.014
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.023
Threshold uncertainty score0.079

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.014
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.010
Scholarly communication0.0050.008
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0040.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0230.007

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.224
Teacher spread0.197 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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