{"id":7613,"date":"2025-07-24T09:05:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T08:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/?p=7613"},"modified":"2025-09-18T13:11:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:11:21","slug":"wras-water-use-what-new-regulations-mean-for-hand-basins-and-urinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wras-water-use-what-new-regulations-mean-for-hand-basins-and-urinals\/","title":{"rendered":"WRAS & Water Use: What New Regulations Mean for Hand Basins and Urinals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Water Regulations Advisory Scheme (WRAS) has reinforced its stance on efficient water use in commercial washrooms. Specifiers are now required to ensure basins, urinals, and flushing systems meet strict flow-rate and backflow prevention standards. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key updates include<\/strong><\/span><\/span> :<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  • Flow restrictors required for taps exceeding 6L\/min <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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    • Waterless urinals needing serviceable cartridges with clear maintenance records <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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      • Mandatory certification for flushing valves <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

        These updates affect contractors, plumbers, and maintenance teams\u2014but also shape how washroom fixtures are designed and specified. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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          The Water Regulations Advisory Scheme (WRAS) has reinforced its stance on efficient water use in commercial washrooms. Specifiers are now required to ensure basins, urinals, and flushing systems meet strict flow-rate and backflow prevention standards.  Key updates include : These updates affect contractors, plumbers, and maintenance teams\u2014but also shape how washroom fixtures are designed and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Male-Cubicles-Polyrey.png",1536,1024,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Male-Cubicles-Polyrey-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Male-Cubicles-Polyrey-300x200.png",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Male-Cubicles-Polyrey-768x512.png",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Male-Cubicles-Polyrey-1024x683.png",640,427,true],"RoboGalleryMansoryImagesCenter":["https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Male-Cubicles-Polyrey-600x1024.png",600,1024,true],"RoboGalleryPreload":["https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Male-Cubicles-Polyrey-100x67.png",100,67,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Male-Cubicles-Polyrey.png",1536,1024,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Male-Cubicles-Polyrey.png",1536,1024,false],"blogus-slider-full":["https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Male-Cubicles-Polyrey-1280x720.png",1280,720,true],"blogus-featured":["https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Male-Cubicles-Polyrey-1024x683.png",1024,683,true],"blogus-medium":["https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Male-Cubicles-Polyrey-720x380.png",720,380,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"webdev","author_link":"https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/author\/webdev\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The Water Regulations Advisory Scheme (WRAS) has reinforced its stance on efficient water use in commercial washrooms. Specifiers are now required to ensure basins, urinals, and flushing systems meet strict flow-rate and backflow prevention standards.  Key updates include : These updates affect contractors, plumbers, and maintenance teams\u2014but also shape how washroom fixtures are designed and…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7613"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7713,"href":"https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7613\/revisions\/7713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.totalcubicles.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}