{"id":123,"date":"2016-02-17T20:04:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T01:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/journalist-cynthia-barnett-to-speak-on-a-water-ethic-for-south-carolina-oct-24\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T21:26:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:26:32","slug":"journalist-cynthia-barnett-to-speak-on-a-water-ethic-for-south-carolina-oct-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/journalist-cynthia-barnett-to-speak-on-a-water-ethic-for-south-carolina-oct-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist Cynthia Barnett to speak on &#8220;A Water Ethic for South Carolina&#8221; Oct. 24"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_634\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cynthia-barnett.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-634\" class=\"size-full wp-image-634 lazyload\" title=\"cynthia-barnett\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/cynthia-barnett.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"168\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 130px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 130\/168;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-634\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Barnett<\/p><\/div>\n<p>OCTOBER 21, 2011<br \/>\nby Katie Love, Media Relations Assistant<\/p>\n<p>GREENVILLE, S.C.&#8211;Cynthia Barnett, a newspaper and magazine journalist, will speak with a panel of experts about \u201cA Water Ethic for South Carolina\u201d Monday, Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. in Furman University\u2019s Patrick Lecture Hall, Townes Science Center.<\/p>\n<p>Water ethics includes avoiding past water mistakes, living within our water means, and embracing \u201clocal water.\u201d \u00a0The event is co-sponsored by Furman\u2019s David E. Shi Center for Sustainability and the Greenville Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Barnett, the panel features John Tynan of Upstate Forever, Furman Earth and Environmental Sciences professor Brannon Andersen, Chief Executive Officer of Greenville Water David Bereskin, Director of Operations at Renewable Water Resources Glen McManus, and Gene McCall, a Greenville attorney practicing water and environmental law.\u00a0 They will address issues in the context of South Carolina&#8217;s specific water resources and challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Barnett is the author of\u00a0<em>Blue Revolution: Unmaking America\u2019s Water Crisis<\/em>, the first book to call for a water ethic for America.\u00a0 A newspaper and magazine journalist for 25 years, Barnett has reported on freshwater issues from the Suwannee River to Singapore.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the author\u2019s website at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynthiabarnett.net\/\">www.cynthiabarnett.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OCTOBER 21, 2011<br \/>\nby Katie Love, Media Relations Assistant<\/p>\n<p>Cynthia Barnett, a newspaper and magazine journalist, will speak with a panel of experts about \u201cA Water Ethic for South Carolina\u201d Monday, Oct. 24 at 7 p.m. in Furman\u2019s Patrick Lecture Hall, Townes Science Center.  Water ethics includes avoiding past water mistakes, living within our water means, and embracing \u201clocal water.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":124,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-shi-institute-for-sustainable-communities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}