{"id":144,"date":"2023-06-01T06:48:40","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T06:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foec.au\/?p=144"},"modified":"2023-06-20T00:03:25","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T00:03:25","slug":"call-to-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foec.au\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"** CALL TO ACTION **"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-blue-color has-text-color\"><strong>Funding for Darebin WaterWatch Program &#8211; Petition<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Darebin Council&#8217;s 2023\/24 budget has been released and it has not confirmed funding for the <a href=\"https:\/\/water.darebin.vic.gov.au\/projects\/our-creeks-and-community-groups\/darebin-creek-waterwatch-group\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/water.darebin.vic.gov.au\/projects\/our-creeks-and-community-groups\/darebin-creek-waterwatch-group\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WaterWatch program<\/a>. The WaterWatch program has been running for a number of years and monitors and measures water quality. There are testing sites along Edgars Creek as well as Merri and Darebin Creeks and at Edwardes Lake also.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is going to affect all of us if it doesn&#8217;t make it into the budget so it&#8217;s time for a petition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are calling on Darebin Council to reinstate funding for the WaterWatch program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-100 has-custom-font-size is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\" style=\"font-size:28px\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-blue-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/chng.it\/4XHNrvXp\" style=\"border-radius:1px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Sign the petition at Change.org<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Follow Friends of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/friendsofedwardeslake\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/friendsofedwardeslake\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Edwardes Lake<\/a> on Facebook and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/friendsofedwardeslake\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/friendsofedwardeslake\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Funding for Darebin WaterWatch Program &#8211; Petition Darebin Council&#8217;s 2023\/24 budget has been released and it has not confirmed funding for the WaterWatch program. The WaterWatch program has been running <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/foec.au\/?p=144\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foec.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foec.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foec.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foec.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foec.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/foec.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170,"href":"https:\/\/foec.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foec.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foec.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foec.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}