Do-not-drink water warning for Ada, then canceled overnight
AI-generated · every claim is source-linkedOhio Northern posted a Village of Ada do-not-drink warning then an ONU Alert cancel on @ohionorthern.
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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.
WATER WARNING IN EFFECT The village of Ada has announced not to drink or use water from the village until further notice. More info: https://www.adaoh.gov/news/drinking-water-warning
Sourcepresent25/25
Final assessment
25 of 25 passes found S present (25 present / 0 absent).
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.
See all 25 individual reads
- present: The village of Ada is named as the agency that announced the warning.
- present: The village of Ada is named as the agency that announced the warning.
- present: "The village of Ada" is a named agency that has announced the warning.
- present: The village of Ada is a named agency that announced the warning.
- present: The village of Ada is named as the agency that announced the warning.
- present: The village of Ada is the named agency that announced the warning.
- present: The village of Ada is a named agency that announced the warning.
- present: The village of Ada is named as the agency that announced the warning.
- present: The village of Ada is named as the authority that announced the warning.
- present: "The village of Ada" is named as the announcing authority.
- present: The village of Ada is named as the agency that announced the warning.
- present: The village of Ada is named as the municipal agency that announced the warning.
- present: The village of Ada is a named agency announcing the warning.
- present: The village of Ada is a named agency that has announced the warning.
- present: The village of Ada is named as the agency that announced the water warning.
- present: The village of Ada is named as the agency that announced the warning.
- present: The village of Ada is identified as the municipal authority that issued the warning.
- present: The village of Ada is a named agency that has announced the warning.
- present: The village of Ada is a named agency announcing the warning.
- present: The village of Ada is a named agency that announced the warning.
- present: The village of Ada is a named agency announcing the warning.
- present: "The village of Ada" is named as the authority that issued the warning.
- present: The village of Ada is a named agency that announced the warning.
- present: The village of Ada is a named agency announcing the warning.
- present: The village of Ada is named as the agency that announced the warning.
Hazardpresent25/25
Final assessment
25 of 25 passes found H present (25 present / 0 absent).
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.
See all 25 individual reads
- present: A water warning not to drink or use village water is a specific drinking-water threat.
- present: A water warning not to drink village water is a specific drinking-water threat.
- present: "WATER WARNING" and not using village water name a specific unsafe water threat.
- present: WATER WARNING and not drinking village water name a specific drinking water threat.
- present: A water warning not to drink or use village water is a specific drinking-water threat.
- present: A water warning not to drink or use village water is a specific drinking water threat.
- present: A water warning that village water must not be drunk or used is a specific drinking water threat.
- present: A water warning not to drink or use village water is a specific drinking-water threat.
- present: A water warning that the supply must not be drunk or used names a specific threat.
- present: "WATER WARNING" plus undrinkable village water names a specific threat, not a generic emergency.
- present: A water warning against drinking or using village water names a specific threat.
- present: A water warning not to drink or use village water is a specific drinking-water threat.
- present: A drinking water warning is a specific threat to the water supply.
- present: WATER WARNING and not drinking or using village water name a specific water threat.
- present: WATER WARNING plus an order not to drink or use village water specifies a drinking-water threat.
- present: WATER WARNING names a specific drinking water threat, not a generic incident.
- present: WATER WARNING plus a ban on drinking or using the supply names a specific drinking water hazard.
- present: A water warning that the supply must not be drunk or used names a specific drinking water threat.
- present: WATER WARNING and not drinking village water name a specific drinking-water threat.
- present: A water warning that village water must not be drunk or used is a specific drinking-water threat.
- present: A water warning not to drink or use village water names a specific drinking-water threat.
- present: "WATER WARNING" and unsafe village water identify a specific drinking-water threat.
- present: WATER WARNING and not drinking or using village water name a specific drinking-water threat.
- present: A water warning not to drink or use village water names a specific drinking-water threat.
- present: WATER WARNING names a specific drinking-water threat.
Locationpresent25/25
Final assessment
25 of 25 passes found L present (25 present / 0 absent).
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.
See all 25 individual reads
- present: The warning applies to water from the village of Ada, a named place.
- present: The warning covers water from the village of Ada, a named place.
- present: The restriction applies to "the village of Ada" and "water from the village".
- present: The warning covers water from the village of Ada.
- present: The restriction applies to water from the village of Ada, a named place.
- present: The restriction applies to water from the village of Ada.
- present: The restriction applies to water from the village of Ada, a named place.
- present: The restriction applies to water from the village of Ada.
- present: The restriction applies to water from the village of Ada.
- present: The order covers water "from the village" of Ada, a named place.
- present: The restriction applies to water from the village of Ada.
- present: The restriction applies to water from the village of Ada, a named place.
- present: The warning covers water from the village of Ada, a named place.
- present: The warning applies to water from the village of Ada.
- present: The restriction applies to water from the village of Ada, a named place.
- present: The restriction applies to water from the village of Ada, a named place.
- present: The affected water is from the village of Ada, which is a named place.
- present: The restriction applies to water from the village of Ada, a named place.
- present: The restriction applies to water from the village of Ada, a named place.
- present: The restriction is on water from the village of Ada, a named place.
- present: The warning applies to water from the village of Ada.
- present: The order applies to water "from the village" of Ada, a named place.
- present: The restriction applies to water from the village of Ada, a named place.
- present: The warning applies to water from the village of Ada.
- present: The restriction applies to water from the village of Ada, a named place.
Guidancepresent25/25
Final assessment
25 of 25 passes found G present (25 present / 0 absent).
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.
See all 25 individual reads
- present: Recipients are told not to drink or use water from the village, a protective instruction.
- present: Recipients are told not to drink or use water from the village.
- present: Recipients are told "not to drink or use water from the village", a protective instruction.
- present: Recipients are told not to drink or use water from the village.
- present: Recipients are told not to drink or use water from the village.
- present: Recipients are told not to drink or use water from the village.
- present: Recipients are told not to drink or use water from the village.
- present: Recipients are told not to drink or use water from the village.
- present: Recipients are told not to drink or use water from the village.
- present: Recipients are told "not to drink or use water from the village", a protective instruction.
- present: Recipients are instructed not to drink or use water from the village.
- present: Recipients are told not to drink or use water from the village.
- present: Recipients are told not to drink or use water from the village.
- present: Recipients are told not to drink or use water from the village.
- present: Recipients are instructed not to drink or use water from the village.
- present: Recipients are told not to drink or use water from the village.
- present: People are instructed not to drink or use water from the village, a protective action.
- present: Recipients are told not to drink or use water from the village.
- present: Recipients are told not to drink or use water from the village.
- present: Recipients are told not to drink or use water from the village.
- present: Recipients are told not to drink or use water from the village.
- present: Recipients are instructed "not to drink or use water from the village".
- present: Recipients are told not to drink or use water from the village.
- present: Recipients are told not to drink or use water from the village.
- present: Recipients are told not to drink or use water from the village.
Timepresent25/25
Final assessment
25 of 25 passes found T present (25 present / 0 absent).
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.
See all 25 individual reads
- present: The restriction lasts until further notice, which is an explicit time marker.
- present: Until further notice is an explicit duration marker.
- present: "Until further notice" is an explicit duration marker.
- present: Until further notice is an explicit duration marker.
- present: Until further notice is an explicit duration marker, and the warning is in effect.
- present: Until further notice is an explicit duration marker.
- present: The restriction lasts until further notice.
- present: Until further notice is an explicit duration marker.
- present: Until further notice is an explicit duration marker.
- present: The warning is "IN EFFECT" and lasts "until further notice".
- present: Until further notice is an explicit duration marker.
- present: Until further notice is an explicit duration marker.
- present: The restriction continues until further notice.
- present: Until further notice is an explicit duration cue.
- present: The warning remains in place until further notice, an explicit duration cue.
- present: Until further notice is an explicit duration marker.
- present: The warning is in effect until further notice, which is an explicit duration cue.
- present: The restriction lasts until further notice.
- present: Until further notice is an explicit duration marker.
- present: Until further notice is an explicit duration marker, and the warning is in effect.
- present: Until further notice is an explicit duration marker.
- present: The restriction remains in place "until further notice".
- present: The restriction lasts until further notice, an explicit duration marker.
- present: Until further notice is an explicit duration marker.
- present: The restriction lasts until further notice, which is a time bound.
Impactabsent0/25
Final assessment
0 of 25 passes found I present (0 present / 25 absent).
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.
See all 25 individual reads
- absent: The water warning is named, but no illness, contamination, or other severity is stated.
- absent: The water warning names the hazard but states no illness, danger, or other consequence.
- absent: The water warning is named, but no consequence such as illness, contamination, or danger is stated.
- absent: The water warning names the hazard but does not state illness, danger, or other consequences.
- absent: Naming a water warning does not state a consequence or severity such as illness or dangerous.
- absent: The water warning names the hazard but states no illness, contamination, or other consequence.
- absent: No illness, contamination, or other consequence is stated beyond the water warning itself.
- absent: The water warning names the hazard but does not state illness, contamination, or other severity.
- absent: The text names the water warning but does not state a consequence or severity such as illness or contamination.
- absent: No illness, contamination, or severity language appears beyond the water warning itself.
- absent: The message names the water warning but states no illness, danger, or other consequence.
- absent: The water warning names the hazard but states no illness, danger, or other consequence.
- absent: No illness, contamination, or other consequence is stated beyond naming the water warning.
- absent: The water warning names the hazard but states no illness, danger, or other consequence.
- absent: The water warning names the hazard but does not state illness, contamination, or other consequences.
- absent: The warning and the do not drink rule name the hazard and the action, not a consequence such as illness or danger.
- absent: No illness, contamination, or other consequence is stated beyond the warning and the use ban.
- absent: No illness, danger, or other consequence is stated beyond naming the water warning.
- absent: The water warning is named but no illness, contamination, or other consequence is stated.
- absent: The warning names the water hazard but states no illness, danger, or other consequence.
- absent: The water warning names the hazard but does not state illness, danger, or other consequences.
- absent: The text never states a health consequence or severity beyond the water warning itself.
- absent: The water warning is named but no illness, danger, or other consequence is stated.
- absent: The water warning names the hazard but does not state illness, danger, or other consequences.
- absent: The water warning is named but no illness, contamination, or other consequence is stated.
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Campus Alert Archive. "Ohio Northern University: Do-not-drink water warning for Ada, then canceled overnight." Incident of January 16, 2026. Added September 2026. https://campusalertarchive.com/case/ohio-northern-university-ada-water-warning-2026-01-16/
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