I'm not arguing against "drinking water", just against "portable water" (water 
that can be carried)
Peter

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  On Mon, 7 Sep 2020 at 11:42, Martin Koppenhoefer<[email protected]> 
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On 7. Sep 2020, at 07:55, Peter Neale via Tagging <[email protected]> 
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I dont know about the USA, but in British English, "portable" means that it can 
be carried. 
If you can drink it, it is "potable".


we‘ve had this discussion 10 years ago and the decision was for drinking_water=*
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/tags/amenity=drinking_water
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=drink
https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/search?q=potable
There’s no benefit from changing established tagging, and there were reasons 
for choosing drinking water rather than potable water.
Cheers Martin   
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