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[stevea]

I'll go this:  "A water tap is a human-made construction providing access to potable water" and leave out "supplied by centralized water distribution system."  That might be "a bucket near the roof of this building."  Honestly, I think it helps to connote "with a handy, accessible, user-friendly valve" soon after.  Emphasis on potable, drinkable, usable water, right now, like many humans enjoy what we mean today by indoor, "running water."  (Even as this fixture might be a raw, brass bib outdoors, where you might connect a garden hose, but it's still a water tap, as is the drinking fountain at the football pitch).  You might spray one of these up to your lips, you might wash your hands in it or use it to draw water into your hydration bottle for later.  There are quite a few different kinds of these.

Words are powerful.  That's what "water tap" means to me.

It's still unclear to me where best (now, tomorrow) to discuss such topics, wiki Talk, here, other...  I figure as long as I say my thing no more than once, I'm OK.  Please let me know if I'm off there.  I do consume and participate in multiple media, as I think many or all of do to some degree, we don't always overlap "neatly."