{"id":214,"date":"2016-09-12T09:29:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T13:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/?p=214"},"modified":"2016-09-12T09:29:25","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T13:29:25","slug":"water-conservation-is-the-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/2016\/09\/water-conservation-is-the-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Conservation is the key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With 53 Georgia counties in a Level 1 drought condition currently, the main focus should be water conservation. \u00a0Some of the things that can be done to conserve water are listed below:<\/p>\n<p>Indoors: \u00a0One fact sheet from UGA is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcs.uga.edu\/docs\/water_fact_sheet-CMYK.pdf\">Every Drop Counts: Conserve Water at Home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1. \u00a0Run water only when needed<\/p>\n<p>2. \u00a0If you have to run the &#8220;hot&#8221; water to get it hot, save the &#8220;cold&#8221; water and use for watering plants both inside and outside<\/p>\n<p>3. \u00a0Wash only Full loads of laundry and dishes<\/p>\n<p>4. \u00a0Fix any leaks in the house (sink, toilet)<\/p>\n<p>5. \u00a0Take shorter showers<\/p>\n<p>Outdoors: \u00a0One Fact sheet from UGA is <a href=\"https:\/\/extension.uga.edu\/publications\/detail.cfm?number=C895-4\">Make Every Drop Count: Managing a Water-Wise Landacape<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1. \u00a0Fix any leaking faucets<\/p>\n<p>2. \u00a0Fix any leaking irrigation systems<\/p>\n<p>3. \u00a0Water as needed without over watering<\/p>\n<p>4. \u00a0Mulch where you can to reduce evaporation<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more information contact your Local County Extension Office or call 1-800-ASK-UGA1.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 53 Georgia counties in a Level 1 drought condition currently, the main focus should be water conservation. \u00a0Some of the things that can be done to conserve water are listed below: Indoors: \u00a0One fact sheet from UGA is Every Drop Counts: Conserve Water at Home 1. \u00a0Run water only when needed 2. \u00a0If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":216,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,9,4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","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-conservation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","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=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}