{"id":1404,"date":"2009-11-24T14:43:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T19:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2017-11-28T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T15:55:00","slug":"well-in-india-sirumayangudi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/2009\/11\/24\/well-in-india-sirumayangudi-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Well in India &#8211; Sirumayangudi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/india_s.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1488\" title=\"india_s\" src=\"http:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/india_s-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/india_s-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/india_s.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This new well serves a village of about 650 people, mostly agricultural laborers.\u00a0\u00a0 Before this well was installed they did not have a protected source of water.\u00a0 The well in use was unreliable and filled with garbage (you can see pictures of it below).\u00a0 Today, thanks to the generosity of individual donors to The Water Project, these families are enjoying clean and safe drinking water.<\/p>\n<p>Our implementing partner noted about their visit,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Arriving at this place and experiencing the fireworks and the celebration was a tad overwhelming but when you consider what they had previously to what exists now, it\u2019s no wonder they were excited to have us and show off their new water source.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/><br \/>\n<!--more Lots of Pictures Inside--><br \/>\nPictures from the project:<br \/>\n[flickr-gallery mode=&#8221;photoset&#8221; photoset=&#8221;72157622691048209&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new well is serving 650 people in the village of Sirumayangudi in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37,6,21],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-project-updates","tag-community-center","tag-well","tag-wells-for-india"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1741,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/1741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewaterproject.org\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}