{"id":493,"date":"2024-01-14T12:34:16","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T20:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etitrain.com\/?p=493"},"modified":"2024-01-14T12:34:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-14T20:34:16","slug":"water-quality-and-supply-a-concern-on-whidbey-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etitrain.com\/?p=493","title":{"rendered":"Water quality and supply a concern on Whidbey Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Experts worry that one day Central and South Whidbey will not have enough quality drinking water.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/etitrain.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/35145732_web1_Lovie-John_0041-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-495\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">John Lovie, an expert advisor on drinking water, stands near a greensand filtration system inside a well house on South Whidbey. (Photo by David Welton)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.southwhidbeyrecord.com\/news\/water-quality-and-supply-a-concern-on-whidbey-island\/?hash=8995a737f9c0952b500304f5dcb13f00&amp;login_id=john.lovie@whidbey.com&amp;id=john.lovie@whidbey.com&amp;site=sound&amp;skin=her\">Water quality and supply a concern on Whidbey Island | South Whidbey Record<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By KATE POSS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Special to the News-Times<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even though the region has nearly continuous rain during the current El Ni\u00f1o winter weather pattern, which seemingly gives residents unlimited drinking water, some experts are concerned that Central and South Whidbey will not have enough quality drinking water to satisfy demand for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Addressing water availability and quality issues Monday Jan. 8, John Lovie, considered an expert advisor on drinking water and conservation of our marine environment, listened to and commented on questions posed by concerned citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lovie was invited to speak by Island County Commissioner Melanie Bacon, who represents District 1. Her district includes all of Whidbey Island, south of the greater Oak Harbor area. Bacon hosts a weekly event to meet her constituents, \u2018Teas with Melanie\u2019 at WiFire Community Space in Freeland most Mondays at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.southwhidbeyrecord.com\/news\/water-quality-and-supply-a-concern-on-whidbey-island\/?hash=8995a737f9c0952b500304f5dcb13f00&amp;login_id=john.lovie@whidbey.com&amp;id=john.lovie@whidbey.com&amp;site=sound&amp;skin=her\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts worry that one day Central and South Whidbey will not have enough quality drinking water. Water quality and supply a concern on Whidbey Island | South Whidbey Record By KATE POSS Special to the News-Times Even though the region has nearly continuous rain during the current El Ni\u00f1o winter weather pattern, which seemingly gives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press","category-water"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etitrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etitrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etitrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etitrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etitrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/etitrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etitrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etitrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etitrain.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}