{"id":1513,"date":"2013-08-23T18:44:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T22:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/08\/23\/water-and-the-economy\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T20:05:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T01:05:03","slug":"water-and-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/water-and-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Water and the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does water infrastructure and business development go hand-in-hand? Absolutely, says Furman Business Professor Bruce Clemons. He and 10 students traveled to Guatemala this summer where the group helped to spearhead a project to extend water lines to a rural community. The students, too, examined how access to safe and reliable water can boost economies and improve lives. Clemens and Furman student Sarah Gauby were interviewed earlier this month by Mike Switzer of the South Carolina Business Review about their work.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scetv.org\/index.php\/sc_business_review\/show\/furman_university_business_class_helps_alleviate_guatemalan_water_shor\/\">Listen to the interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Water image by <a href=\"http:\/\/shutterstock.com\">Shutterstock<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does water infrastructure and business development go hand-in-hand?  Absolutely, says Furman Business Professor Bruce Clemons. He and 10  students traveled to Guatemala this summer where the group helped to spearhead a  project to extend water lines to a rural community. The students, too,  examined how access to safe and reliable water can boost economies and  improve lives. Clemens and Furman student Sarah Gauby were interviewed  earlier this month by Mike Switzer of the South Carolina Business Review  about their work.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scetv.org\/index.php\/sc_business_review\/show\/furman_university_business_class_helps_alleviate_guatemalan_water_shor\/\">Listen to the interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1514,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513","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=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}