{"id":24,"date":"2014-11-21T11:24:45","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T11:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/water\/?p=24"},"modified":"2015-05-21T14:44:06","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T13:44:06","slug":"wirc-approved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/water\/2014\/11\/21\/wirc-approved\/","title":{"rendered":"New Water Innovation and Research Centre Approved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of Studies of the Faculty of Engineering &amp; Design has approved the establishment of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/research\/centres\/wirc\/\">Water Innovation and Research Centre<\/a> at the University: WIRC @ Bath.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/water\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2014\/12\/hands-with-water.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/water\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2014\/12\/hands-with-water.jpg\" alt=\"hands-with-water\" width=\"2212\" height=\"2019\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/water\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2014\/12\/hands-with-water.jpg 2212w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/water\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2014\/12\/hands-with-water-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/water\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/85\/2014\/12\/hands-with-water-1024x935.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2212px) 100vw, 2212px\" \/><\/a>The new Centre will provide a unique environment in which research into water technologies and resource management will be conducted, contributing to future water policy and the development of innovative and integrated sustainable water treatment systems.<\/p>\n<p>The University of Bath is home to many water research projects, including a series of programmes carried out in collaboration with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wessexwater.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wessex Water<\/a>. The new Centre will build on these projects to develop major research in five themes: water treatment, water resources, water management, water and public health, and water environment and infrastructure resilience.<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about the new Centre <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/research\/centres\/wirc\/\">through its webpages<\/a>, or a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bath.ac.uk\/mech-eng\/news\/news-items\/news_0210.html\">University of Bath news item<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of Studies of the Faculty of Engineering &amp; Design has approved the establishment of a Water Innovation and Research Centre at the University: WIRC @ Bath. The new Centre will provide a unique environment in which research into...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wirc","tag-wirc-bath"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/water\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}