{"id":9121,"date":"2020-10-01T19:45:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T00:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=9121"},"modified":"2020-10-01T19:45:34","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T00:45:34","slug":"nature-based-flood-management-works-best-costs-less-benefits-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/?p=9121","title":{"rendered":"Nature-Based Flood Management Works Best, Costs Less, Benefits Everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong><em>Sign Bayou City Waterkeeper&#8217;s Petition!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oct. 1, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bayoucitywaterkeeper.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bayou City Waterkeeper<\/a>, a member of the international <a href=\"https:\/\/waterkeeper.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Waterkeeper Alliance<\/a>, has started a <a href=\"https:\/\/bayoucitywaterkeeper.org\/take-action-houston-needs-nature-based-flood-projects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">petition<\/a> to encourage City of Houston officials to invest in green and nature-based projects \u201cthat improve drainage, reduce flooding, and keep people out of harm&#8217;s way for generations to come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nonprofit organization points out that \u201cHouston&#8217;s focus on getting water quickly to the bayous places too much emphasis on traditional flood management techniques, at the cost of natural infrastructure projects that can provide multiple benefits to communities across our watershed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We agree!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bayoucitywaterkeeper.org\/take-action-houston-needs-nature-based-flood-projects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sign the petition here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sign Bayou City Waterkeeper&#8217;s Petition! Oct. 1, 2020 Bayou City Waterkeeper, a member of the international Waterkeeper Alliance, has started a petition to encourage City of Houston officials to invest in green and nature-based projects \u201cthat improve drainage, reduce flooding, and keep people out of harm&#8217;s way for generations to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9123,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9121\/revisions\/9123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.savebuffalobayou.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}