Water contamination, November 16, 2024

To check this alert, SuperGrok Heavy 4.5 (an AI) read it in full 25 separate times, independently. Each read decided whether the message answers each of the six questions and gave a short reason. A final reviewer then weighed all 25 and wrote the plain-English verdict you see when you open a row. The score (for example 22/25) is how many reads agreed; the 25 individual reads are tucked underneath if you want to check them.

• Sourcepresent25/25

  Final assessment

  Source is present at 25/25. Every read treats City Utilities of Springfield as the named issuing agency, and many also cite www.missouristatealert.com as a branded campus channel.

  Who is sending the alert and who is responding. People act faster on a message from a clearly identifiable, credible sender, such as a named department, the police, or a branded alert system, than on an anonymous notice. A branded signature counts.

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  1. present: City Utilities of Springfield is named as the agency that issued the advisory, which identifies the authority.
  2. present: The closing URL www.missouristatealert.com is a branded campus alert domain that tags the sender.
  3. present: City Utilities of Springfield has issued states who put out the boil water order.
  4. present: Both the city utility and the missouristatealert.com footer identify issuing authorities.
  5. present: The first clause attributes the order to City Utilities of Springfield, a named agency.
  6. present: City Utilities is the named issuer, and the campus alert site is offered for more information.
  7. present: www.missouristatealert.com at the close is a branded signature-style campus channel.
  8. present: City Utilities of Springfield has issued is an explicit issuing-authority line.
  9. present: The utility website is offered as the source of the map, reinforcing City Utilities as the authority.
  10. present: Missouri State alert site is cited, which brands the campus as the messenger of the notice.
  11. present: City Utilities of Springfield appears twice, once as issuer and once as the website source.
  12. present: A named municipal utility issuing the advisory satisfies the source element.
  13. present: The product points to missouristatealert.com, a campus branded alert URL.
  14. present: City Utilities of Springfield is the responding and issuing authority named up front.
  15. present: Both City Utilities and the Missouri State alert domain identify who is speaking.
  16. present: Has issued a boil water advisory attributes the warning to City Utilities of Springfield.
  17. present: The lead names City Utilities of Springfield as the issuer of the order.
  18. present: Springfield City Utilities is the named agency, matching the rubric named-agency rule.
  19. present: More information at www.missouristatealert.com functions as a branded campus signature.
  20. present: City Utilities of Springfield has issued identifies the sending and responding utility.
  21. present: Dual source cues: City Utilities as issuer and missouristatealert.com as campus channel.
  22. present: The utility is named in full as City Utilities of Springfield, satisfying source.
  23. present: Issued by City Utilities of Springfield names the authority behind the notice.
  24. present: Missouri State is named and its alert website is linked, identifying the campus product.
  25. present: City Utilities of Springfield has issued plus the CU website line name the issuing agency.
• Hazardpresent25/25

  Final assessment

  Hazard is present at 25/25. All 25 reads find a boil water advisory, a specific water-safety threat rather than a generic incident.

  What the threat actually is. A complete warning names the specific danger, such as a shooter, a fire, a tornado, or a gas leak, rather than a vague emergency, because people decide what to do based on what they are facing.

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  1. present: A boil water advisory is a specific water-safety threat, not a generic incident or situation.
  2. present: The lead sentence names the hazard as a boil water advisory rather than an unspecified emergency.
  3. present: Boil water advisory names the concrete public-health water threat.
  4. present: The threat is specified as a boil water advisory covering the service area.
  5. present: Water that must be boiled before use is a specific contamination-style hazard.
  6. present: Boil water advisory is the specific threat type, closer to hazmat than to situation.
  7. present: The body never says emergency or incident alone; it names a boil water advisory.
  8. present: A boil water order is a named water-quality hazard.
  9. present: Hazard is present because boil water advisory specifies the threat.
  10. present: The opening names a boil water advisory, a specific water-safety problem.
  11. present: Boil water advisory is more specific than incident, so hazard is coded present.
  12. present: The text specifies boil water, not a vague situation on campus.
  13. present: Issued a boil water advisory states what the threat is.
  14. present: Water-quality boil advisory is a specific named hazard.
  15. present: The hazard is a boil water advisory for the city and campus water system.
  16. present: Boil water is the specific threat, distinct from a generic emergency label.
  17. present: Advisory type is boil water, which names the water threat specifically.
  18. present: A boil water advisory is a concrete hazard, not the word incident alone.
  19. present: The body repeatedly names the boil water advisory as the event.
  20. present: Hazard present: boil water advisory is the specific threat named in sentence one.
  21. present: The threat is a boil water quality advisory, which is specific.
  22. present: Boil water advisory is the named hazard rather than a vague situation.
  23. present: The first sentence states a boil water advisory, a specific threat.
  24. present: Water that requires boiling is specified; the text does not hide behind incident.
  25. present: Boil water advisory is the specific named threat throughout the message.
• Locationpresent25/25

  Final assessment

  Location is present at 25/25. Reads cite Springfield, the main campus, residence halls, and the Campbell and Trafficway service-area bounds.

  Where the threat is. Saying whether danger is in a specific building, a part of campus, or area-wide lets people judge their own proximity and choose a safe direction. Without a where, a warning is hard to act on precisely.

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  1. present: The advisory covers much of Springfield, including Missouri State University main campus, a named place.
  2. present: Main campus plus residence halls and dining halls locate the event on the university grounds.
  3. present: Springfield is named, and the campus is specified as the main campus.
  4. present: Campbell to the east end of the service area and Trafficway to the southern end give street bounds.
  5. present: The phrase including Missouri State University main campus is an on-campus where.
  6. present: Residence halls is a named campus place where bottled water will be available.
  7. present: Much of Springfield plus the mapped Campbell and Trafficway bounds locate the area.
  8. present: Dining halls and residence halls are campus buildings tied to the advisory.
  9. present: East end of the service area and southern end of the service area are geographic bounds.
  10. present: Main campus is a campus location word the rubric accepts as where.
  11. present: From Campbell to the east end names a street as the western bound of the zone.
  12. present: Springfield is a named city, and the university main campus is nested inside it.
  13. present: Trafficway to the southern end of the service area is a named-road location cue.
  14. present: Including Missouri State University main campus places the threat on campus.
  15. present: The map of the area under the boil water advisory plus Campbell and Trafficway give where.
  16. present: Residence halls names where bottled water will be, a campus location.
  17. present: Much of Springfield is a city-scale location, and main campus pins the campus.
  18. present: Campbell and Trafficway are named streets bounding the advisory area.
  19. present: University main campus is an on-campus place phrase.
  20. present: The service-area bounds from Campbell east and Trafficway south locate the zone.
  21. present: Dining halls will be open locates campus dining as part of the affected setting.
  22. present: Springfield, main campus, Campbell, and Trafficway together state where.
  23. present: The area included in the advisory is described with Campbell and Trafficway.
  24. present: Main campus is named, which the location rubric counts as campus.
  25. present: Much of Springfield including the main campus is a clear where.
• Guidancepresent25/25

  Final assessment

  Guidance is present at 25/25. Tap water should not be used for drinking, brushing teeth, or food preparation unless boiled one minute is a protective instruction.

  The protective action to take. A clear, specific instruction, such as shelter in place, evacuate, avoid the area, or run-hide-fight, drives faster and more correct protective behavior than describing the threat alone.

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  1. present: Recipients are told tap water should not be used for drinking, brushing teeth, or food prep unless boiled one minute.
  2. present: Boil for at least one minute before drinking or cooking is a protective-action instruction.
  3. present: The sentence this means that tap water should not be used unless boiled tells people what to do.
  4. present: Do not use tap water for drinking, brushing teeth, or food preparation unless boiled is recipient guidance.
  5. present: Unless it is boiled for at least one minute is the required protective step.
  6. present: Readers are instructed not to drink, brush, or cook with tap water unless it is boiled.
  7. present: The protective action is boil tap water at least one minute before those listed uses.
  8. present: Should not be used for drinking, brushing teeth or food preparation is a stay-off-the-tap instruction.
  9. present: Bottled water in halls is a resource, but the boil-one-minute rule is still guidance.
  10. present: Boil for at least one minute is an imperative-style protective action even in third person.
  11. present: The means-that paragraph is an instruction to boil before drinking or preparing food.
  12. present: Recipients get a concrete action: boil tap water one minute before those uses.
  13. present: Do not use unboiled tap water for drinking or food prep is the protective instruction.
  14. present: The one-minute boil rule is what people are told to do with tap water.
  15. present: Tap water should not be used unless boiled is a direct protective-action statement.
  16. present: Brushing teeth is listed among uses to avoid unless the water is boiled, which is guidance.
  17. present: The required action is a one-minute boil before drinking, brushing, or cooking.
  18. present: Recipients must boil tap water at least one minute before listed uses.
  19. present: This means that plus the boil-one-minute clause is an instruction to the audience.
  20. present: Protective action is present: do not drink or cook with tap water unless boiled.
  21. present: Unless it is boiled for at least one minute is the action people must take.
  22. present: People are told not to use tap water for drinking, teeth, or food unless boiled.
  23. present: Boil at least one minute before drinking or food preparation is recipient guidance.
  24. present: The boil rule is an instruction to recipients, not a description of responder work.
  25. present: Tap water should not be used for drinking, brushing teeth or food preparation unless boiled.
• Timepresent25/25

  Final assessment

  Time is present at 25/25. The advisory is expected to last throughout the weekend, a duration cue comparable to today or ongoing.

  When the message applies. A timestamp, the word now or immediately, or a phrase like until further notice tells the reader whether the danger is current and how quickly to act.

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  1. present: The advisory is expected to last throughout the weekend, which is a duration window.
  2. present: Throughout the weekend functions like today or ongoing, a when cue for how long the order lasts.
  3. present: Expected to last throughout the weekend supplies a time horizon for the advisory.
  4. present: Weekend is a calendar period stating when the advisory remains in force.
  5. present: The second sentence times the advisory as lasting throughout the weekend.
  6. present: Last throughout the weekend is a duration phrase that answers when.
  7. present: Throughout the weekend is as specific a time cue as today on the rubric list.
  8. present: The advisory expected weekend span is a when, even without a clock time.
  9. present: Expected to last is a timing verb, and weekend is the interval.
  10. present: Weekend supplies the period of effect, analogous to until further notice.
  11. present: Throughout the weekend tells recipients the restriction is not a brief now only.
  12. present: The duration cue throughout the weekend meets the time rubric.
  13. present: Weekend is a calendar span for how long the advisory continues.
  14. present: Last throughout the weekend is an explicit when-it-ends style window.
  15. present: The second sentence times the event as a weekend-long advisory.
  16. present: Throughout the weekend is the stated duration, a time element.
  17. present: Expected to last throughout the weekend is a forecast interval, which counts as when.
  18. present: Weekend is a temporal marker for the advisory expected length.
  19. present: The advisory is timed as lasting throughout the weekend rather than undated.
  20. present: Throughout the weekend is the when, even without a clock or calendar date.
  21. present: Last throughout the weekend answers how long the restriction runs.
  22. present: Weekend duration is a recency and span cue under the time element.
  23. present: Expected to last throughout the weekend is an until-style time statement.
  24. present: Throughout the weekend is a time-of-effect phrase like ongoing.
  25. present: The weekend horizon is the stated timing of the advisory.
• Impactabsent12/25

  Final assessment

  Impact is present at 12/25. Majority found no illness, unsafe, or dangerous wording and treated the boil rule as guidance. Twelve reads treated the ban on drinking, brushing, and cooking as implied health harm.

  What the hazard could do to the people in its path. Beyond naming the threat, a complete warning conveys its potential consequences or severity, such as that a tornado can level buildings or that a leak could be explosive, so recipients grasp how much danger they are in. Research on warning message content finds that a concrete impact statement helps people personalize their risk and act sooner.

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  1. present: Forbidding untreated tap water for drinking, teeth, and food prep implies the water can harm people if swallowed.
  2. absent: No illness, unsafe, contaminated, or dangerous wording appears, so impact stays at the hazard name only.
  3. present: The ban on using unboiled water for ingestion strongly implies a health consequence from the tap supply.
  4. absent: Naming a boil water advisory and restating the boil rule does not add a stated harm or severity.
  5. absent: Precautions and bottled water describe operations, not injury, illness, or property damage.
  6. present: Telling people the water is unfit for drinking or food unless boiled conveys that untreated water is unsafe.
  7. absent: The rubric requires consequence language, and this text never says what the water could do.
  8. present: Restricting drinking, tooth brushing, and food prep implies ingestion could make people sick.
  9. absent: All needed precautions is operational language, not a statement of deadly or injurious effect.
  10. present: Unboiled tap water barred from the mouth and from food is a clearly implied health harm.
  11. present: The listed banned uses (drink, brush, cook) encode that the water can harm if taken in.
  12. absent: No words such as illness, unsafe, contamination, or dangerous appear in the body.
  13. present: Needing to boil before drinking implies the untreated supply poses a health risk.
  14. absent: Guidance about boiling is not the same as stating injury, sickness, or severity.
  15. absent: Dining halls taking precautions describes staff steps, not harm the water could cause.
  16. present: Barring tap water from the mouth unless boiled is a strong implication of ingestible harm.
  17. absent: Impact is absent because the text never says the water could sicken, injure, or contaminate people.
  18. present: Should not be used for drinking unless boiled conveys that untreated water is unsafe to consume.
  19. absent: Bottled water will be available states a resource, not a consequence such as illness.
  20. absent: Nothing like life-threatening, may cause injury, or dangerous is stated.
  21. present: Treating tap water as unfit for drinking and food prep implies a health-harm consequence.
  22. absent: Strict reading: hazard label plus boil instructions do not satisfy the impact element.
  23. present: The health uses that are barred without boiling imply the water could make people ill.
  24. absent: No explicit or strongly worded severity such as could be deadly or risk of illness appears.
  25. present: Forbidding ordinary ingestion of tap water unless boiled strongly implies a contamination harm.