Portal talk:Water

Moved to Category:Portals under construction

I've been moving portals under construction from Category:Portals to Category:Portals under construction. This portal was moved because of red link for the Portal:Water/Things you can do section. When this is fixed, the portal should be recategorized. —Doug Bell^{talk•contrib} 08:50, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

• OK, Doug, I've just added information to fix the red link you noted. So now I'll recategorize the portal to Category:Portals. KHatcher 03:54, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

Intensification of the water cycle article

Since the water cycle is being profiled, I encourage y'all to advect over there and radiate some WP energy. There were big changes recently, and it would be nice to get the high profile topic spic 'n span. Cheers, Daniel Collins 16:02, 28 March 2006 (UTC).

Proposed Australian collaboration

There is a discussion at Wikipedia:Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight#Irrigation in Australia or Water supply in Australia for a proposed new article, probably to be called Irrigation in Australia. If you would be interested in helping to develop the article, people (Australian or not) are welcome to add their support and comments. Is there a Water noticeboard I should be using for this?--Scott Davis ^Talk 00:11, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Structured list for water topics.

The indistinct scope of the water article will need to be solidified in order to get it to featured article quality. I have two proposed lists, 1) by topic, following the article; 2) by state/ecological domain. Hearing no objection in the next 2 weeks, they will be posted (unless someone else acts fist).

• moved to List of water related topics

2nd list: by water type

moved toList of water related topics by water type

rmo13 01:02, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Target?

@Nnemo: I saw this pop up in my recent changes patrol. The target looks odd; did you intend a redirect to Portal:Swimming, perhaps? -- John of Reading (talk) 18:57, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Hello @John of Reading. Oops, there was a little error. It's corrected now. Thank you for telling me. I was not thinking about Portal:Swimming. Aquatic Portal = Water Portal. I move the talk according to usage. --Nnemo (talk) 19:28, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Knowlege needed for Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science

Can anyone help to solve this ? Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science#"lake" "rain" "surface patterns" 109.40.80.188 (talk) 05:00, 5 October 2014 (UTC)

This link is broken. --Nnemo (talk) 23:25, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

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2020 additions and updates

The portal was only providing one selected article, Water cycle, using a transclusion of the Portal:Water/Featured article page, so I added more articles directly to the portal, listed below. This serves to provide WP:READERS with a greater and more diverse range of water-based content. The portal is now using transclusion templates to provide article content (and other content) which displays verbatim content to that in articles, providing readers with up-to-date content. A consensus approving the usage of transclusion templates in portals was formed at this Village Pump discussion, which was closed on 28 December 2019 (UTC).

Article list

• Drinking water, Well, Cistern, Water scarcity, Water pollution, History of water supply and sanitation, Great Artesian Basin, Distilled water, Mineral water, Water footprint, Irrigation, Wastewater treatment, Reclaimed water, Drinking water supply and sanitation in the United States, Water conservation, Aquifer, Evapotranspiration, Groundwater pollution, Peak water, Water resource management, Hard water, Seawater, Origin of water on Earth, Hydropower, Sea ice, Water vapor, Desalination, Wetland, Fresh water, Extraterrestrial liquid water, Sea, Ice, Geyser, Ocean planet, Ocean, Malvern water, Carbonated water, Purified water, Ultrapure water, Water purification, Hydrology, Flint water crisis, Water fluoridation, Reverse osmosis, Human right to water and sanitation, Rain, Irrigation in Australia.

• Portal:Water/Water news has been updated, with dead/404 links replaced with live links or removed and some new links added. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 19:21, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

• Portal:Water/Photo gallery has been updated, with dead/404 links replaced with live links or removed and some new links added. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:55, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

• The portal previously had only one selected picture (File:Water cycle.png). More images were added, several of which are Featured pictures on Wikimedia Commons. See below for images now being used in the portal. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 21:55, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

Selected picture

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  Rain over Beinn Eich, Luss Hills, Scotland
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  Goðafoss is a waterfall in northern Iceland
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  Dew on a water horsetail
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  A water droplet
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  Worm Bay at Port Campbell National Park, Peterborough, Victoria, Australia
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  A fire hydrant in Alkmaar, the Netherlands. Fire hydrants are a source of water provided by most metropolitan communities to enable firefighters to tap into the municipal water supply to assist in extinguishing a fire.
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  Breaking waves at Porto Covo, Portugal
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  The water cycle
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  Waves on rocks at sunset in Sète, France
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  Waterfall Shypit (height 14 m), Mizhhiria Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast of western Ukraine
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  A cooling pond at The Maasvlakte
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  A view of the Rosoki River in the eponymous village, Macedonia
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  Surface irrigation system using siphon tubes

• A new General images section has been added, which displays images from the Water and Drinking water articles. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 22:07, 1 February 2020 (UTC)

General images

The following are images from various water-related articles on Wikipedia.

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  Poverty often leads to unhygienic living conditions, as in this community in the Indian Himalayas. Such conditions promote contraction of diarrheal diseases, as a result of contaminated drinking water, poor sanitation and hygiene. (from Drinking water)
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  Band 5 ALMA receiver is an instrument specifically designed to detect water in the universe. (from Water)
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  Example for physical and chemical parameters measured in drinking water samples in Kenya and Ethiopia as part of a systematic review of published literature (from Drinking water)
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  Hazard symbol for non-potable water (from Water)
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  The vast "water hymn" in James Joyce's novel Ulysses is occasioned when the protagonist Leopold Bloom fills a kettle with water from a kitchen faucet. (from Water)
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  Mortality rate attributable to unsafe water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) (from Drinking water)
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  Water requirement per tonne of food product (from Water)
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  Water can be used to cook foods such as noodles. (from Water)
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  Icosahedron as a part of Spinoza monument in Amsterdam (from Water)
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  Water is used for fighting wildfires. (from Water)
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  Irrigation of field crops (from Water)
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  Total water withdrawals for agricultural, industrial and municipal purposes per capita, measured in cubic metres (m³) per year in 2010 (from Water)
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  World map for SDG 6 Indicator 6.1.1 in 2015: "Proportion of population using safely managed drinking water services" (from Drinking water)
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  The three common states of matter (from Water)
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  An environmental science program – a student from Iowa State University sampling water (from Water)
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  South polar ice cap of Mars during Martian south summer 2000 (from Water)
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  Drinking water that is supplied through a tap (tap water) (from Drinking water)
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  Tetrahedral structure of water (from Water)
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  Water cycle (from Water)
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  Roadside fresh water outlet from glacier, Nubra (from Water)
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  Specific heat capacity of water (from Water)
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  A water molecule consists of two hydrogen atoms and one oxygen atom. (from Water)
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  Model of hydrogen bonds (1) between molecules of water (from Water)
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  An estimate of the proportion of people in developing countries with access to potable water 1970–2000 (from Water)
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  Water availability: the fraction of the population using improved water sources by country (from Water)
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  A young girl drinking bottled water (from Water)
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  Sterile water for injection (from Water)
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  People come to Inda Abba Hadera spring (Inda Sillasie, Ethiopia) to wash in holy water. (from Water)
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  Total renewable water resources per capita in 2020 (from Drinking water)
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  Drinking water vending machines in Thailand. One litre of potable water is sold (into the customer's own bottle) for 1 baht. (from Drinking water)
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  Diagram of water well types (from Drinking water)
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  Phase diagram of water (from Water)
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  Overview of photosynthesis (green) and respiration (red) (from Water)
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  Water fountain (from Water)
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  The "F-diagram" (feces, fingers, flies, fields, fluids, food), showing pathways of fecal–oral disease transmission. The vertical blue lines show barriers: toilets, safe water, hygiene and handwashing. (from Drinking water)
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  San Andrés island, Colombia (from Water)
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  Water treatment plant (from Drinking water)

• More subpages were added to Portal:Water/Did you know, expanding the scope of DYK coverage. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 00:11, 11 April 2020 (UTC)