{"id":240199,"date":"2023-04-29T19:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T14:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=240199"},"modified":"2023-05-02T16:10:24","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T10:40:24","slug":"govt-moots-star-rating-system-for-water-taps-sanitary-fixtures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/govt-moots-star-rating-system-for-water-taps-sanitary-fixtures\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt. moots star rating system for water taps, sanitary fixtures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the artic<strong>l<\/strong><\/span><b>e \u201cGovt. moots star rating system for water taps, sanitary fixtures\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on <b>29th April 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Central Government is in the process of bringing in a star rating system for water fixtures similar to the ratings of electrical appliances.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Star Rating system for water fixtures<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Star Rating system for water taps, sanitary fixtures will be similar to the ratings of electrical appliances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The rating system would have 3, 4 and 5-star water fixtures based on their water efficiency and this rating system would come under the Bharat Tap Initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the Bharat Tap initiative?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bharat Tap initiative aims to provide low-flow, sanitary ware at scale, and thereby reduce water consumption at the source considerably.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is estimated that this initiative will save approximately 40% of water. This will in turn result in water saving and energy saving due to less water and energy will be required for pumping, transporting, and purification.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cGovt. moots star rating system for water taps, sanitary fixtures\u201d published in The Hindu on 29th April 2023 What is the News? The Central Government is in the process of bringing in a star rating system for water fixtures similar to the ratings of electrical appliances. About&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/govt-moots-star-rating-system-for-water-taps-sanitary-fixtures\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Govt. moots star rating system for water taps, sanitary fixtures<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[11532,10498],"class_list":["post-240199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-bharat-tap-initiative","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}