{"id":6861,"date":"2020-06-23T08:40:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T08:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=6861"},"modified":"2020-06-23T08:40:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T08:40:10","slug":"australian-high-commissioner-to-pakistan-endorses-rainwater-harvesting-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/australian-high-commissioner-to-pakistan-endorses-rainwater-harvesting-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan Endorses Rainwater Harvesting @ Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6862\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Rainwater-tanks-at-AHC.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Rainwater-tanks-at-AHC.jpg 500w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Rainwater-tanks-at-AHC-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Rainwater-tanks-at-AHC-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Rainwater-tanks-at-AHC-265x198.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Islamabad; Just before the start of the Monsoon season, the Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan, Dr Geoffrey Shaw took to twitter to share a picture of two rainwater tanks during their construction at his residence.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The underground tanks, which are now operational, have 741,000 litres of rainwater storage capacity and the water collected is now used at Dr Shaw\u2019s residence and the Australian High Commission in Islamabad.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWater conservation can be key in tackling water shortage and climate change in Pakistan,\u201d Dr Shaw said. \u201cAustralia is helping Pakistan manage this valuable natural resource by sharing Australian expertise,\u201d he added.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pakistan and Australia have a long history of working together on effective management of water resources.\u00a0 The Australian Government through its Sustainable Development Investment Portfolio (SDIP) is helping Pakistan implement Australian expertise and technology in efficient water management and build its local capacity in integrated water resource management.<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project is led by Australia\u2019s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) as part of a 12-year program, funded by the Australian Government. <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6863\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1-1.jpg 261w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/1-1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6864\" src=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2.jpg 261w, https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/h3>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad; Just before the start of the Monsoon season, the Australian High Commissioner to Pakistan, Dr Geoffrey Shaw took to twitter to share a picture of two rainwater tanks during their construction at his residence. The underground tanks, which are now operational, have 741,000 litres of rainwater storage capacity and the water collected is now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[321,48,410],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6861"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6865,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6861\/revisions\/6865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}