{"id":838,"date":"2012-10-03T00:00:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T04:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/10\/03\/racancoj-speaks-about-potable-water-systems-in-guatemala\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:34:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:34:20","slug":"racancoj-speaks-about-potable-water-systems-in-guatemala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/racancoj-speaks-about-potable-water-systems-in-guatemala\/","title":{"rendered":"Racanc\u00f3j speaks about potable water systems in Guatemala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OCTOBER 8, 2012<br \/>\nby Tina Underwood, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n<p>Victor Racanc\u00f3j, board president Agua del Pueblo (AdP), will speak Wednesday, Oct. 10 at 5 p.m. in 104 Hipp Hall.\u00a0AdP is a non-profit technical assistance institution providing potable water and sanitation programs to more than 700 Guatemalan communities, covering 20 percent of the country\u2019s rural population.\u00a0The session is free and open to the public and sponsored by the Global Sustainability Club.<\/p>\n<p>Racanc\u00f3j will speak about Esperanza San Antonio, the town receiving $25,000 raised by Furman students and the Duke Endowment through the First Annual Water Walk last May. He will also speak about the upcoming May-X: Global Sustainability in Guatemala.<\/p>\n<p>Racanc\u00f3j, a well-known Mayan leader of highland Guatemala, is a member of the economics faculty of San Carlos University. Founded in 1678, San Carlos University enrolls more than 140,000 students.\u00a0 For more information about the session, contact Bruce Clemens at 864-236-8982.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OCTOBER 8, 2012<br \/>\nby Tina Underwood, Contributing Writer<\/p>\n<p>Victor Racanc\u00f3j, board president Agua del Pueblo (AdP), will speak Wednesday, Oct. 10 at 5 p.m. in 104 Hipp Hall.\u00a0AdP is a non-profit technical assistance institution providing potable water and sanitation programs to more than 700 Guatemalan communities, covering 20 percent of the country\u2019s rural population.\u00a0The session is free and open to the public and sponsored by the Global Sustainability Club.\u00a0Racanc\u00f3j will speak about Esperanza San Antonio, the town receiving $25,000 raised by Furman students and the Duke Endowment through the First Annual Water Walk last May. He will also speak about the upcoming May-X: Global Sustainability in Guatemala. Contact\u00a0Bruce Clemens at 864-236-8982 for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","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=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}