The recent measurement of rate constant for the reaction O(1D)+H2O at 298K by Dunlea and Ravishankara (2004b) agreed well with previous values, and the NASA/JPL panel evaluation No. 17 (Sander et al., 2011) recommends k5.9 (298 K) = 2.0 10-10 cm3 molecule-1 s-1 based on these values.