{"id":48655,"date":"2021-03-24T18:06:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T22:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=48655"},"modified":"2021-03-24T18:06:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T22:06:03","slug":"world-water-day-marked-by-1m-bc-provincial-grant-for-watershed-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/world-water-day-marked-by-1m-bc-provincial-grant-for-watershed-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"World Water Day marked by $1M BC provincial grant for watershed protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With global water demand projected to increase by 55% between 2000 and 2050, this year\u2019s World Water Day \u2014 which was Monday \u2014 brought with it a message of urgency both global and local.<\/p>\n<p>In BC\u2019s Southern Interior, the event was highlighted by the fact the provincial government's Healthy Watersheds Initiative announced an allocation of $1 million to Living Lakes Canada for the development of a project aimed at determining water monitoring priorities and creating jobs in water monitoring and water-related restoration work.<\/p>\n<p>Living Lakes Canada\u2019s Executive Director Kat Hartwig says the world-renown Columbia Valley Wetlands \u2014 headwaters for both the Columbia and Kootenay river are facing the same pressures as many of the lakes, rivers and streams around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>But she adds that resonates here care deeply about the future of our fresh water \u2014 and they\u2019re action are proof of that concern.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With global water demand projected to increase by 55% between 2000 and 2050, this year\u2019s World Water Day \u2014 which was Monday \u2014 brought with it a message of urgency both global and local. In BC\u2019s Southern Interior, the event was highlighted by the fact the provincial government&#8217;s Healthy Watersheds Initiative announced an allocation of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":48657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,222,225],"tags":[],"radio":[1420],"origine":[280,2165,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48655"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=48655"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=48655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}