{"id":1270,"date":"2021-10-04T13:46:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T17:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2021-10-04T13:46:47","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T17:46:47","slug":"uga-water-resources-participate-in-2021-athens-water-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/2021\/10\/uga-water-resources-participate-in-2021-athens-water-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"UGA Water Resources participate in 2021 Athens Water Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Water Resources from UGA participated in the 2021 Athens Water Festival.  Members from the labs of Dr. Rebecca Abney, UGA Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources; Dr. Nandita Gaur, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, Crop and Soil Science Department (CRSS); Dr. Janine Sherrier, CRSS; and Dr. Gary L. HAwkins, CRSS participated in the 2021 Athens Water Festival.  Members of this team as shown in the images below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Played a Flushable and Non-Flushable game with kids and adults<\/li><li>Demonstrated how a septic tank and system works<\/li><li>Demonstrated how different paper products and &#8220;flushable&#8221; items breaks down while being stirred<\/li><li>Demonstrated how pollution moves in a watershed using a tabletop watershed model<\/li><li>Demonstrated how water is treated and is delivered to a home as well as showed how wastewater is collected and delivered to a wastewater treatment plant for treatment<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2021\/10\/09_11_2021-Athens-Water-Festival-2021-cropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"617\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2021\/10\/09_11_2021-Athens-Water-Festival-2021-cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2021\/10\/09_11_2021-Athens-Water-Festival-2021-cropped.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2021\/10\/09_11_2021-Athens-Water-Festival-2021-cropped-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2021\/10\/09_11_2021-Athens-Water-Festival-2021-cropped-768x463.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Members from the labs of Drs. Rebecca Abney, Nandita Gaur, Janine Sherrier and Gary L. Hawkins prior to participating in the 2021 Athens Water Festival. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Athens Water Festival is an Annual Event hosted by the Athens-Clarke County Water Department to provide some fun and education on different aspects of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following is a few shots of the team members using the education displays at the water festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2021\/10\/09_11_2021-Courtney_Left-and-Ali_Right-showing-the-demonstartion-models-at-2021-Athens-Water-Festival.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2021\/10\/09_11_2021-Courtney_Left-and-Ali_Right-showing-the-demonstartion-models-at-2021-Athens-Water-Festival.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2021\/10\/09_11_2021-Courtney_Left-and-Ali_Right-showing-the-demonstartion-models-at-2021-Athens-Water-Festival.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2021\/10\/09_11_2021-Courtney_Left-and-Ali_Right-showing-the-demonstartion-models-at-2021-Athens-Water-Festival-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2021\/10\/09_11_2021-Courtney_Left-and-Ali_Right-showing-the-demonstartion-models-at-2021-Athens-Water-Festival-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Courtney on the left demonstrating how a septic system works and Ali on the right playing the flushable and non-flushable game at the 2021 Athens Water Festival.  <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2021\/10\/09_11_2021-Jack-demonstrating-NPS-model-at-2021-Athens-Water-Festival.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2021\/10\/09_11_2021-Jack-demonstrating-NPS-model-at-2021-Athens-Water-Festival.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2021\/10\/09_11_2021-Jack-demonstrating-NPS-model-at-2021-Athens-Water-Festival.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2021\/10\/09_11_2021-Jack-demonstrating-NPS-model-at-2021-Athens-Water-Festival-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/files\/2021\/10\/09_11_2021-Jack-demonstrating-NPS-model-at-2021-Athens-Water-Festival-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Jack demonstrating about point and non-point source pollution at the 2021 Athens Water Festival.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team from UGA in the Water Resources tent at the 2021 Athens Water Festival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":1272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,9,4,7,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-4-h-water","category-anr-water","category-facs-water","category-general-water-issues","category-septic","category-stormwater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}