{"id":132,"date":"2015-03-26T20:19:18","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T20:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/offices\/sustainability\/?page_id=132"},"modified":"2021-11-01T21:35:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T21:35:38","slug":"water-quality-conservation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/offices\/sustainability\/projects\/water-quality-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Water Quality &amp; Conservation"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"intro\">&#8220;Living in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, it is easy to forget we must conserve water. Water is a renewable resource, yet many are concerned about the quantity and quality of drinking water. Water treatment and delivery both require consumption of resources.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Erika Bailey-Johnson (Strategic Plan)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>Hydration Stations<\/h3>\n<p>As of Spring 2011, in addition to distributing reusable water bottles, BSU&#8217;s campus featured two bottle-filling stations attached to water fountains. The Green Fee Mini Grant, Residential Life, and the Student Union helped pay for these stations.<\/p>\n<p>That fall, a People of the Environment student group successfully worked on installing more stations. Five stations were installed before the Spring 2012 semester. The Sustainability Office&#8217;s goal is to provide easily accessible, filtered water through a bottle-filling station on every floor in every building.\u00a0 We hope students, faculty, staff, and community members will fill reusable bottles with filtered tap water instead of consuming plastic bottled water.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Living in the Land of 10,000 Lakes, it is easy to forget we must conserve water. Water is a renewable resource, yet many are concerned about the quantity and quality of drinking water. Water treatment and delivery both require consumption of resources.&#8221; &#8211; Erika Bailey-Johnson (Strategic Plan) Hydration Stations As of Spring 2011, in addition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-132","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/offices\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/offices\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/offices\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/offices\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/offices\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/offices\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1586,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/offices\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/132\/revisions\/1586"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/offices\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/offices\/sustainability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}