{"id":11746,"date":"2012-12-06T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2012-12-06T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=11746"},"modified":"2012-12-27T13:41:32","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T19:41:32","slug":"how-oklahomas-credit-rating-affects-your-tap-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/12\/06\/how-oklahomas-credit-rating-affects-your-tap-water\/","title":{"rendered":"How Oklahoma&#8217;s Credit Rating Affects Your Tap Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11756\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"New construction surrounds the rusting remnants of Broken Arrow's old water treatment plant.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/12\/WaterPipe.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11756\" title=\"WaterPipe\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/12\/WaterPipe-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Logan Layden \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">New construction surrounds the rusting remnants of Broken Arrow&#39;s old water treatment plant.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Building new water systems is expensive, so Oklahoma has a program to help communities pay for these projects.<\/p><p>Here\u2019s how it works: Cities and towns apply for a low-interest loan through the Oklahoma Water Resources Board. The state has a better credit rating than most cities do. So going through the state gets them a better deal on a loan.<\/p><p>The program has been around since 1985, securing more than $2 billion for water projects across the state.\u00a0But there was a problem. The state only has so much credit, and a Broken Arrow\u2019s project pushed it to the limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building new water systems is expensive, so Oklahoma has a program to help communities pay for these projects.Here\u2019s how it works: Cities and towns apply for a low-interest loan through the Oklahoma Water Resources Board. The state has a better credit rating than most cities do. So going through the state gets them a better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":11756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[491,16],"tags":[449,444,460],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}