{"id":113544,"date":"2020-09-28T19:23:37","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T02:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/water-where-you-need-it"},"modified":"2020-09-28T19:23:37","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T02:23:37","slug":"water-where-you-need-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/water-where-you-need-it","title":{"rendered":"Water where you need it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/water-where-you-need-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Cody Friesen, PhD \u201904, trekked through the bush in Kenya\u2019s Rift Valley to comprehend the perils the girls of the Samburu Girls Foundation faced when they went out to gather water.<\/p>\n<p>Every day, girls living at the rescue organization had to walk two miles\u2014often past men who see them as property\u2014to the nearest water in a land where the past decade had been marked by blistering droughts.<\/p>\n<p>There, on the muddy banks of a river riddled with cholera, Friesen saw the tracks of hyenas and men, reminders of what might await any girl who lingered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018, Cody Friesen, PhD \u201904, trekked through the bush in Kenya\u2019s Rift Valley to comprehend the perils the girls of the Samburu Girls Foundation faced when they went out to gather water. Every day, girls living at the rescue organization had to walk two miles\u2014often past men who see them as property\u2014to the nearest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}