{"id":71725,"date":"2016-06-28T17:30:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T17:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=66f1af57d4d1a89b47d231a36077a9be"},"modified":"2016-06-28T17:30:14","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T17:30:14","slug":"press-release-secretary-of-state-congratulates-welsh-water-on-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=71725","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Secretary of State congratulates Welsh Water on anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Alun Cairns tonight (June 28) hosted a reception for Welsh Water as the company celebrates 15 years as a not-for-profit organisation.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of State for Wales told guests from the company gathered at Gwydyr House, the Wales Office headquarters in London, that the company had a \u201chistory to be proud of\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cairns said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I recall being briefed on the setting-up of Glas Cymru during my time as an Assembly Member so can claim a pretty long association with the company.<\/p>\n<p>It is entirely fitting to have this special reception at Gwydyr House as it was of course a Welsh engineer &#8211; Sir Hugh Myddleton &#8211;  who brought clean water to London in the 17th century.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s business model is a success story for Wales &#8211; more than \u00a31 billion has been invested to improve the quality of waste water treatment process which has helped Wales secure 47 Blue Flags.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">I am sure it will continue for years to come as an innovative Welsh enterprise.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alun Cairns has hosted a reception for Welsh Water as the company celebrates 15 years as a not-for-profit organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}