{"id":19109,"date":"2016-02-04T12:03:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T11:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19109"},"modified":"2016-02-04T12:08:48","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T11:08:48","slug":"you-learn-something-every-day-let-me-introduce-you-to-ramsar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19109","title":{"rendered":"You learn something every day. Let me introduce you to RAMSAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past four years, I have chaired a body &#8211; currently called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southeastwater.co.uk\/about-us\/our-business\/customer-panel\">Customer Panel<\/a> &#8211; for a company called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southeastwater.co.uk\">South East Water<\/a>. \u00a0The operation and regulation of the water sector is incredibly complicated with lots of specialist terminology and a great many acronyms.<\/p>\n<p>This week, we had a meeting at which we focused especially on environmental issues. We learned that some 44% of the area covered by South East Water lies within landscape which has some kind of environmental designation. The national average is 24%.<\/p>\n<p>So there are 144 SSSIs which are <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Site_of_Special_Scientific_Interest\">Sites of Special of Special Scientific<\/a> Interest &#8211; a designation I know. But the paper before us mentioned five RAMSAR sites and this was an acronym that was totally new to me.<\/p>\n<p>A quick search on Google revealed that RAMSAR is not actually an acronym but a place &#8211; a town in Iran where in 1971 there was agreement on the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ramsar_Convention\">Ramsar Convention<\/a> (formally, the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, especially as Waterfowl Habitat).<\/p>\n<p>You learn something every day &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past four years, I have chaired a body &#8211; currently called the Customer Panel &#8211; for a company called South East Water. \u00a0The operation and regulation of the water sector is incredibly complicated with lots of specialist terminology and a great many acronyms. This week, we had a meeting at which we focused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19109"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19119,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19109\/revisions\/19119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}