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Android app integrated with Akvo Flow
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Remove Health Risk Categories for all E.coli tests #273

Closed janagombitova closed 2 years ago

janagombitova commented 3 years ago

Franky and Mert have reviewed our Aquagenx tests for E.coli. They came to the conclusion that the Health Risk categories that we present with the data (safe, probably safe, not safe) based on Aquagex’s interpretation of a WHO table are misleading. As any e.coli value above 0 poses a health risk, but how one evaluates the health risk also depends on the water body that is being tested. For drinking water is anything higher than 0 a risk, but for swimming in rivers the value of 5 might be ok (as an example)

To avoid any wrong decisions, we agreed it is better to remove the Health Categories from the app and leave the categorisation to the user interpreting the data based on the contexts of the water sample. We thought it is good to combine this change with a blog post explaining our decision that Franky and Mert will work on.

How will this affect backwards compatibility for datasets that do have this data? How Flow reads the values and how Lumen handles them?

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