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The Transparent Water Initiative is an initiative to create a global website for water quality, starting locally.

Why?

Because some want us to believe water is not a human right:

Because everybody has the right to transparent insight in their water quality, before something goes wrong:

Because maybe bottled water is not the answer:

Intro

Water is essential to life. Water should be accessible to anyone 1 but there is a lot unclear about water. And it is getting harder for the general public to be informed about water. In some countries in Europe, tap water quality is an issue. In some countries, tap water is fine, but big companies tell you that bottled water is better 2. We have decided to start working on a project that will give us; but more important, regular people, more transparency, insight and knowledge about water. For this we are re-hashing the original "Trinkwasser" project that originates from Code For Germany (City of Heilbron and City of Mannheim) and has been adapted in a concept by Code For Ireland/ Europe named "Transparent Water"

What we want to build

1. A generic, scalable geo-aware (data)model with an API to hold all information about: o Water nutrient and chemical contents o Quality o Suppliers o Waterwork operators o Zones for tap-water o Pumping stations o ..and more as we develop the app in stage 2

2. A viewer where you can get insight on water and the ingredients and that allows you to compare tap with bottled, tap with tap (in other countries) regarding contents, quality and cost and that will answer questions like: When I am on vacation/travel, where can I drink from the tap?

Our infrastructure • We are setting up a prototype for the API in nodejs using swagger, mongoose/mongodb • Reuse of the client that has been created for "Trinkwasser" and "What's in my water" this client is written in html/css/javascript with jquery/d3.js • We use grunt to compile the client and have a variety of importers for different sources that needs to be enhanced

What we need

• mongoose/mongodb skills • translators (We are using transifex and translate static html while compiling the client) • Frontend/UX people • Nodejs/API developers • General thinkers/developers that want to help set up the general/scalable API • General thinkers/developers that want to make sure a common user gets the right experience • People that want to learn

## Convinced?

Join the development!