{"id":8695,"date":"2010-01-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/01\/24\/ganga-water-a-commodity\/"},"modified":"2010-01-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T12:00:00","slug":"ganga-water-a-commodity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2010\/01\/24\/ganga-water-a-commodity\/","title":{"rendered":"Ganga Water, A Commodity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/msid-5454462,prtpage-1.cms\">timesofindia.indiatimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>INDIA, January 17 2010: With an expected price of US$1 per bottle, the negotiation of Ganga water is underway. In place of buying the ubiquitous white plastic cans of 5 liters and filling it with Gangajal yourself, expect to buy branded cans of the holy water. <\/p>\n<p>Until now, a couple of offers from private companies are pending with the government for permission, planning a large-scale operation. Stopping the go-ahead are calculations of revenues the government can make from it, and concerns that water will be overdrawn beyond permissible limits.<\/p>\n<p>However, there is a collective ethical doubt, to what extent the practice of selling Gangajal would be righteous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com INDIA, January 17 2010: With an expected price of US$1 per bottle, the negotiation of Ganga water is,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}