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  "schema": "builttoresist.uai.research-note.v1",
  "format_note": "Project-specific UTF-8 JSON research record with .uai extension; JSON mirror provided for standard retrieval. Not an AG-UI transport or third-party protocol.",
  "version": "0.63.0",
  "updated": "2026-10-12",
  "status": "conditional_extreme_scenario_not_prediction",
  "topic_id": "worst-case-water-health-and-medicine",
  "title": "Water, sanitation, medicine: the life-support chain",
  "canonical_url": "https://builttoresist.com/worst-case/water-health-and-medicine/",
  "central_finding": "The fastest preventable harms often precede dramatic collapse.",
  "warning_sign": "Contamination alerts, prolonged water-pressure loss, missing prescriptions, or an inaccessible clinic.",
  "priority_actions": [
    "Confirm a safe water source and use treatment appropriate to the actual contamination; boiling does not remove many chemicals.",
    "Write down time-critical prescriptions, allergies, equipment dependencies, refrigeration, and clinical contacts.",
    "Get professional help early for interrupted insulin, dialysis, oxygen, pregnancy care, or serious dehydration."
  ],
  "follow_on_actions": [
    "Maintain toilets, handwashing, safe food handling, and waste separation; monitor for disease.",
    "Identify a transport and backup clinical referral route before scheduled care is missed."
  ],
  "critical_limit": "Household preparedness cannot replace a treatment plant, emergency surgery, or production of critical medicines. Never improvise critical medication doses.",
  "source_reports": [
    {
      "set": "outside",
      "report_id": "WC-07-outside",
      "canonical_url": "https://builttoresist.com/worst-case/reports/outside/water-health-and-medicine/",
      "deep_link": "https://builttoresist.com/worst-case/reports/outside/water-health-and-medicine/#infrastructure-interdependence-water-sanitation-electricity-and-medical-supply-chains",
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    {
      "set": "research",
      "report_id": "WC-07-research",
      "canonical_url": "https://builttoresist.com/worst-case/reports/research/water-health-and-medicine/",
      "deep_link": "https://builttoresist.com/worst-case/reports/research/water-health-and-medicine/#public-health-prevention-priorities",
      "source_sha256": "d763bb13fdbcf34b863291dce6db6352cdde1b57a5e17bc506259b60ba2455c4"
    }
  ],
  "related_blank_forms": [
    {
      "id": "CD-21",
      "url": "https://builttoresist.com/continuity-desk/medication-medical-continuity-sheet/"
    },
    {
      "id": "CD-22",
      "url": "https://builttoresist.com/continuity-desk/care-dependency-continuity-plan/"
    },
    {
      "id": "CD-05",
      "url": "https://builttoresist.com/continuity-desk/local-systems-map/"
    },
    {
      "id": "CD-35",
      "url": "https://builttoresist.com/continuity-desk/service-restoration-priority-worksheet/"
    }
  ],
  "claim_status": "scenario-derived editorial synthesis; verify external public-health, legal and emergency instructions locally",
  "privacy": "Do not submit completed medical, identity, household, or location records to this site.",
  "editorial_participation_priority": "Cognitive liberty is the right to hear and be heard. Encourage voluntary, source-linked original public contributions rather than advice to retreat or self-silence.",
  "public_contribution_action": "Publish verifiable utility and clinic advisories and teachable skills with responsible warnings about professional care and contamination.",
  "human_record_guide": "https://builttoresist.com/human-record/crisis-knowledge/",
  "editorial_boundary": "This new public-invitation layer is an owner editorial preference; scenario evidence, third-party consent, confidentiality needs, and medical/public safety limitations are not silently replaced."
}