{"id":44,"date":"2012-02-24T00:37:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T08:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/?p=44"},"modified":"2012-02-25T10:55:08","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T18:55:08","slug":"world-water-week-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/2012\/02\/24\/world-water-week-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"World Water Week 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/files\/2012\/02\/wwd2.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59 aligncenter\" title=\"wwd2\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/files\/2012\/02\/wwd2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/files\/2012\/02\/WWD2012_LOGO_EN1.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a>Planning for this year\u2019s World Water Week is well underway and there are a variety of exciting events happening on campus and in the community. The World Water Day committee headed by John Wagner as well as the UBCSUO will help facilitate the events and presentations for World Water Week 2012. World Water Week will commence on Tuesday March 20<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and will run through until Thursday March 22<sup>nd<\/sup> .\u00a0 This year the United Nations has selected the theme to be \u2018Water and Food Security\u2019.\u00a0 To kick off the week we will be having the opening ceremonies in the UBCO courtyard on March 20<sup>th<\/sup> 12-1:30pm. The opening ceremonies will consist of art installations, musical performances, food vendors and guest speakers all of which promise to be interesting and informative. \u00a0This year\u2019s keynote speaker is Yehalem Metiku who is the country representative for\u00a0<em>Partners in the Horn of Africa<\/em>, a Canadian charitable organization engaged in community development work in Ethiopia. Once again the Creative Writing students will be hosting a poetry slam and there will also be discussion on the topic of \u2018water and food security\u2019 hosted by the Okanagan Basin Water Board. Special thanks to all of the World Water Day Committee members for their valuable input and offers to showcase UBC-O\u2019s commitment to local and global water issues. More details will be soon to come regarding specific events and schedules for the three day WWD event.<\/p>\n<p>Rhiannon Wallace<\/p>\n<p>UBCO World Water Day Student Coordinator<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Planning for this year\u2019s World Water Week is well underway and there are a variety of exciting events happening on campus and in the community. The World Water Day committee headed by John Wagner as well as the UBCSUO will help facilitate the events and presentations for World Water Week 2012. World Water Week will [&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-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","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=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/worldwaterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}