{"id":8884,"date":"2022-10-03T07:15:06","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T01:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8884"},"modified":"2025-03-29T09:57:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T04:27:26","slug":"tap-water-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/tap-water-connections\/","title":{"rendered":"Tap water connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Tamil Nadu, Himachal Pradesh, Goa, and Puducherry reported more than 80% of households with fully functional connections, while fewer than half the households in Rajasthan, Kerala, Manipur, Tripura, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram and Sikkim had such connections.<\/li>\n<li>A fully functional tap water connection is defined as a household getting at least 55 litres per capita per day of potable water all through the year.<\/li>\n<li>Close to three-fourths of households received water all seven days a week and 8% just once a week.<\/li>\n<li>On an average, households got water for three hours every day, and 80% reported that their daily requirements of water were being met by the tap connections.<\/li>\n<li>The report mentions a concerning problem of chlorine contamination. Though 93% of the samples were reportedly free of bacteriological contamination, \u201cmost of the anganwadi centres and schools, had higher than the permissible range of residual chlorine and indicated inappropriate local dosing.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/ShareArticle?OrgId=GJ1ABOSIL.1&amp;imageview=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Hindu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tap water travels from a public municipal water treatment system or private well to your faucet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}