Method and accountability
Editorial standards
Source hierarchy
Licensing authorities answer category, qualification, application, examination, fee, status, and renewal questions. Water purveyors answer tap, meter, connection, backflow, permit, and inspection questions. State and local offices answer business registration, insurance, bond, conservation, drought, design, tax, and operating rules. Named testing or training providers, insurers, sureties, project specifications, and qualified advisers answer only the requirements they control. No single source replaces the others.
Category, water system, jurisdiction, and dates
A claim is useful only when its state category, water system, local jurisdiction, standard, project, source, version, and checked date are clear. Readers should confirm current requirements before acting. When an answer is unclear, the responsible output is a question to confirm, not an invented fee, eligibility decision, examination result, training credit, license, permit, insurance determination, compliance status, work forecast, or processing time.
Article review
Published articles require page-level review for source validity, licensing, application, examination, training, backflow, insurance, permit, local-rule, cost, and jurisdiction context, internal consistency, intent, and duplication. IrrigatorPath does not silently bulk-rewrite or remove indexed article bodies during technical releases. A weak or outdated page should receive a documented review before revision, consolidation, redirect, noindexing, or deletion.
AI assistance
Automation may assist with organization, formatting, link checks, and drafts. It is not accepted as authority for a legal, licensing, application, examination, training, backflow, insurance, bond, permit, inspection, local-rule, tax, compliance, employment, or income claim. Current factual claims still require source review, and generated examples must not be presented as customer proof, credentials, authority advice, test results, or real-world outcomes.
Corrections
Send the page URL, disputed statement, and a supporting primary source to support@irrigatorpath.com. Material corrections should update the visible page and modified date rather than being hidden in discovery metadata.