{"id":1015,"date":"2012-11-08T15:51:03","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T12:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/?p=1015"},"modified":"2016-11-01T14:44:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T11:44:23","slug":"the-value-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/2012\/11\/08\/the-value-of-water\/","title":{"rendered":"The Value of Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According\u00a0to a\u00a0<a title=\"Value of water survey\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xyleminc.com\/valueofwater\/water_survey.htm\">survey\u00a0by Xylem<\/a> American say that &#8220;water is the most important service they receive, ahead of electricity, heat, the Internet and cell phones. Among businesses, it ranks second only to electricity. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/survey01.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1017\" title=\"survey01\" src=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/survey01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #0000ee;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Water has for too long been absent from\u00a0the\u00a0national debate on infrastructure. Hidden\u00a0underground, the deterioration of our nation\u2019s\u00a0water pipes and treatment systems has\u00a0become an unseen crisis. In an era of water\u00a0scarcity and tight budgets, we can no longer\u00a0afford to lose nearly two trillion gallons of\u00a0clean water, at an annual cost of $2.6 billion,\u00a0to broken and leaking pipes every year.<\/p>\n<p>ITT \u2019s nationwide survey on the value of water\u00a0details what Americans think should be done\u00a0about this crisis\u2014and who should pay for it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>View an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xyleminc.com\/valueofwater\/VOW_presentation\/index.html\">interactive\u00a0version<\/a>\u00a0of the survey or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xyleminc.com\/valueofwater\/VOW_presentation\/pdf\/itt-value-of-water.pdf\">download the pdf file<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According\u00a0to a\u00a0survey\u00a0by Xylem American say that &#8220;water is the most important service they receive, ahead of electricity, heat, the Internet and cell phones. Among businesses, it ranks second only to electricity. &#8221; Water has for too long been absent from\u00a0the\u00a0national &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/2012\/11\/08\/the-value-of-water\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Value of Water<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[153,152],"class_list":["post-1015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-papers-research","tag-survey","tag-xylem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3700,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015\/revisions\/3700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.water-simulation.com\/wsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}