About

The Water Dictionary is an independent reference tool that provides mineral composition data for famous water profiles and simple mixing recipes using commercially available bottled waters.

Methodology

Recipes are generated by a two-phase algorithm: brute-force enumeration of all 1-, 2-, and 3-water combinations at simple ratios, followed by continuous optimisation using the Nelder-Mead simplex method. Scoring uses a tolerance-band approach with IQR-normalised absolute deviations, weighted by use case.

Data sources

Bottled water mineral data comes from manufacturer labels, cross-referenced against mineralwaterfit.com, Open Food Facts, and Eupedia. Target profiles come from municipal water reports and brewing literature.

Licensing

All water profile data is available under the Creative Commons BY 4.0 license. You are free to use, share, and adapt the data with attribution.