{"id":180365,"date":"2016-05-04T11:51:24","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T11:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leedpoints.com\/?guid=4c43452c06e74f32ed5e724cd1d3f93f"},"modified":"2016-05-04T11:51:24","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T11:51:24","slug":"the-water-efficiency-rating-score-wers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/the-water-efficiency-rating-score-wers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Water Efficiency Rating Score (WERS)"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Prime:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                     prime        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Subtitle:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    The Green Builder Coalition&rsquo;s new tool is ready        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Images:&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/water-efficiency-rating-score-wers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/water-efficiency-rating-score-wers-faucet-gpm.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Water efficiency at the faucet\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/water-efficiency-rating-score-wers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/water-efficiency-rating-score-wers-structured-waste.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Measuring structural waste\" width=\"144\" height=\"192\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/water-efficiency-rating-score-wers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/water-efficiency-rating-score-wers-irrigation-controller.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Irrigation controller\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/water-efficiency-rating-score-wers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/water-efficiency-rating-score-wers-checklist.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The WERS inspection checklist\" width=\"144\" height=\"123\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/water-efficiency-rating-score-wers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/santa-fe-new-mexico-roadside-diner.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"A diner in the Southwest\" width=\"144\" height=\"87\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<div>\n                    <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/water-efficiency-rating-score-wers\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/blog-river\/california-drought-water-conservation.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"California drought\" width=\"144\" height=\"108\"><\/a>        <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildercoalition.org\/\">Green Builder Coalition<\/a> has been working hard on their <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wers.us\/\">Water Efficiency Rating Score&nbsp;&mdash; the WERS<\/a> &mdash; for homes. The inaugural WERS training happened in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in March. I was in that class, and I learned a lot.<\/p>\n<p>The program has been in development for the past couple of years. Now it&#8217;s ready for prime time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenbuildingadvisor.com\/articles\/dept\/building-science\/water-efficiency-rating-score-wers\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10479,2337,5436],"class_list":["post-180365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-building-posts","tag-drought","tag-water-conservation","tag-water-efficiency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}