Synonyms Water, Hydration and Dehydration

Question

The questions under those tags basically are all the same in my eyes.

water
hydration
dehydration

I think we should at least merge the last two, but honestly I think we can include water, too, as there are currently no questions using the water tag that are not related to hydration and I can't think of any on topic questions that would need a water tag unrelated to hydration on fitness.SE

Answer 1

I think that's fine. hydration and dehydration should definitely be merged, and I can't see any reason to have water not be merged as well if it's only being used in reference to either hydration or dehydration. We can address anything else that comes up with them later.

Answer 2

Here is a question which is quite rightly tagged with water, and is definitely not swimming or hydration. I think we will limit ourselves if we combine all three into one. There's clearly a difference between water for hydration and water as a physical medium in exercise.

My proposal:

• hydration refers to human body water levels, inc. any drinking related questions
• water refers to water as a physical medium in sport, whether it be an obstacle or playing field. Note we have more specific tags like swimming.