{"id":23,"date":"2011-01-18T13:16:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T21:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/?p=23"},"modified":"2011-02-23T09:54:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-23T17:54:32","slug":"world-water-week-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/2011\/01\/18\/world-water-week-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"World Water Week 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/files\/2011\/01\/UN-Logo1.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/files\/2011\/01\/UN-Logo1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-24\" title=\"UN-Logo1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/files\/2011\/01\/UN-Logo1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hello everyone!<\/p>\n<p>I am very excited to announce that World Water Week\u00a0 planning at UBC Okanagan is well under way for 2011. This year&#8217;s theme is &#8220;Water for Cities: Responding to the Urban Challenge&#8221;. So far,\u00a0 we are just in the early stages of developing our schedule of events but it looks like this year will be one to remember.<\/p>\n<p>This year World Water Week will be overseen by\u00a0 Leanne Bilodeau Director, Sustainability Operations and myself Allisha Luther your student coordinator. Leanne, myself and John Wagner (our Steering Committee Chair) are looking forward to the various events that are planned for this year.<\/p>\n<p>As our keynote speaker this year, we are very honored to have Oliver Brandes.\u00a0 Oliver is a political ecologist who has been involved in various environmental and development projects in Costa  Rica and Ecuador, including a tropical reforestation initiative, water  treatment facility construction and a sea-turtle restoration project. He  also worked in Canada\u2019s North for the territorial judges at the Nunavut  Court of Justice. Additionally we will have a variety of events from the student body and community member throughout the week.<\/p>\n<p>Please stay tuned for further updates!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone! I am very excited to announce that World Water Week\u00a0 planning at UBC Okanagan is well under way for 2011. This year&#8217;s theme is &#8220;Water for Cities: Responding to the Urban Challenge&#8221;. So far,\u00a0 we are just in the early stages of developing our schedule of events but it looks like this year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6024,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6024"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/28"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}