{"id":2689,"date":"2013-03-08T12:17:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T17:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2021-04-15T09:52:36","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T13:52:36","slug":"pledge-for-h2o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/pledge-for-h2o\/","title":{"rendered":"Pledge for H2O"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As humans, we all need water. The ecosystems of Earth need water too. Unfortunately, <a href=\"http:\/\/environment.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/photos\/rivers-run-dry\/#\/freshwater-rivers-amu-darya-1_45139_600x450.jpg\">many rivers run dry from overuse<\/a>. If you don\u2019t want to see this happen, one of the things you can do is to save the water that you consume every day. Here are some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/article\/water-conservation-tips\">tips<\/a>. You can also take the pledge\u00a0at <a href=\"http:\/\/changethecourse.us\/\">Change the Course<\/a>\u00a0to help restore the Colorado River. Every pledge will return 1,000 gallons to this river.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Change the Course: Help Save the Colorado River\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vbi6hQXvbHI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in learning more about freshwater and why it is so important to the world, I would recommend National Geographic\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/environment.nationalgeographic.com\/environment\/freshwater\/freshwater-101\/\">Freshwater 101<\/a> to start your research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As humans, we all need water. The ecosystems of Earth need water too. Unfortunately, many rivers run dry from overuse. If you don\u2019t want to see this happen, one of the things you can do is to save the water &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/pledge-for-h2o\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35,146,15],"class_list":["post-2689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-geography","tag-resources","tag-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4844,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions\/4844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/schulich\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}