{"id":354,"date":"2017-05-31T09:01:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T13:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/?p=354"},"modified":"2017-05-31T09:01:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T13:01:02","slug":"water-education-for-kids-and-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/2017\/05\/water-education-for-kids-and-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Education for Kids and Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the June 2017 issue of the Treatment Plant Operators (TPO) Magazine there is an article titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tpomag.com\/editorial\/2017\/06\/how_the_waterama_festival_uses_education_to_initiate_change\">How the Waterama Festival Uses Education to Initiate Change<\/a>&#8221; . \u00a0The article discusses how as a result of a renovation, the Fort Worth Water Treatment plant had to stop conducting tours of their facility and developed the Waterama for local schools. \u00a0The festival started as a program for 5th graders and changed to a 4th grade program resulting from Texas School System change in Standards. \u00a0The festival started as a program by the Water Department and has expanded to \u00a0other groups including the Texas A&amp;M AgriLife Extension Service.<\/p>\n<p>As UGA Extension, I know we are involved in many activities involving water education for 4-H youth, school age youth, water festivals, and other events. \u00a0If you are part of an event related to water, let me know and we can let others know about the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water education for fourth graders includes educating parents, teachers and other adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354","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=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}