Editorial Policy
Smart Valve publishes commercial water-savings content, municipal rate explainers, product education, and calculator guidance. This policy sets the standard for that work.
Smart Valve content should be useful, specific, and reviewable. Water-rate and calculator pages should identify the local utility context, normalize units clearly, show source or verification details where available, and avoid treating general savings ranges as a guaranteed result for every property.
Last updated: May 12, 2026
Editorial Standards
Pages are written to help readers understand water-cost exposure, not to hide the assumptions behind a sales claim. Rate data, calculator logic, product claims, and calls to action should be consistent with visible page content.
When a claim depends on usage, meter size, sewer billing method, property type, or local tariff structure, the page should either explain that dependency or point the reader to a calculator, rate page, or assessment path that does.
Specific before generic
City, utility, rate, date, and source context are preferred over broad national phrasing.
Visible support
Schema, answer capsules, and metadata should match claims a reader can see on the page.
Commercial clarity
Smart Valve is a commercial website, so product-fit and savings content must stay clearly tied to assessment.
Correction-ready
Pages should make it possible for a reader to flag outdated rates or unclear methodology.
Rate and Research Review
Municipal rate content is assembled from utility schedules, public rate pages, city pages, and internal tariff records used by the calculator. Records should include effective dates, last verification dates, source links, normalized units, and sewer logic where available.
Because municipal rates change, readers should treat published rates as a research aid rather than a substitute for the latest bill, utility portal, or official rate schedule.
Corrections
Correction requests can be sent through the contact page or by email. Helpful correction notes include the page URL, the utility or claim in question, the relevant source, and the date the source was checked.