Water Point

https://publicschema.org/WaterPoint

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A service point where drinking water or household water is made accessible to a population, such as a borehole, public tap or standpipe, protected dug well, protected spring, or water kiosk. WaterPoint specializes ServicePoint for the water and sanitation sector (WASH) and carries additional properties for the physical type of the water source, per the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) improved-source typology, and for the JMP drinking water service level (safely managed, basic, limited, unimproved, or no service), which is derived from source type and collection time. WaterPoint is relevant to SDG 6.1 monitoring and to WASH-cluster operational tracking. It is distinct from a sanitation facility or handwashing station, which are separate service-point types.

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Supertypes

ServicePoint

Properties

Property Type Definition
Identity
Name from ServicePoint string
The full display name of the record. Depending on the concept, this is a person's or group's name, or the title of a program, instrument, scoring rule, or software product.
Identifiers from ServicePoint concept:Identifier
Identifiers carried by this entity, such as national ID numbers, program IDs, or identifiers asserted by an identity document.
Classification
Service point type from ServicePoint string (service-point-type)
The category of service this point provides (health, education, distribution, WASH, etc.).
Water point type string (water-point-type)
The physical type of this water access point per the WHO/UNICEF JMP improved-source typology (borehole, protected dug well, public tap, etc.). The water point type determines whether the source is classified as improved or unimproved on the JMP drinking water service ladder.
Water service level string (water-service-level)
The WHO/UNICEF JMP classification of the household's drinking water service. Derived from water source type and collection time; not directly observed.
Operational status from ServicePoint string (facility-operational-status)
Whether the service point is currently operational, partially operational, or non-functional.
Location
Located at from ServicePoint concept:Location The administrative or geographic location where this service point sits.
Governance
Managed by from ServicePoint concept:Organization
The organization that operates or manages this service point (government agency, NGO, UN agency, private provider).

Evidence

Not yet found in mapped delivery systems.

WaterPoint is newly introduced in PublicSchema as a signal of cross-sector extensibility for the ServicePoint hierarchy. No direct WaterPoint concept has been mapped in the six v1 convergence systems. WHO/UNICEF JMP facility assessment data and WASH-cluster service-delivery-point registries are the natural candidates for a future convergence pass.

Standard Equivalent Match
schema.org Place broad
schema.org has no specific water point or water facility type. The closest is schema.org Place (a broad geometric entity). PublicSchema WaterPoint is a functional operational concept carrying service-level and source-type semantics from the JMP monitoring framework.

Referenced by this concept

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