{"id":162,"date":"2016-04-12T11:01:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T15:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/?p=162"},"modified":"2018-03-22T12:30:36","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T16:30:36","slug":"fun-facts-ofteh-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/2016\/04\/fun-facts-ofteh-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun Fact(s) of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I want to take a look at the amount of pipe it takes in the US to get us fresh clean water.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www3.epa.gov\/safewater\/kids\/water_trivia_facts.html\">US EPA,<\/a> there are approximately 1 million miles of pipeline or aqueducts in the US and Canada. \u00a0That is enough to circle the earth 40 times.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Also, it cost over $3.5 billion annually to operate water systems in the US.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As you can see it takes dollars and miles of pipe to get water from its source to the end user.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I want to take a look at the amount of pipe it takes in the US to get us fresh clean water. &nbsp; According to the US EPA, there are approximately 1 million miles of pipeline or aqueducts in the US and Canada. \u00a0That is enough to circle the earth 40 times. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-fact"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","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=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}