{"id":130955,"date":"2026-08-06T05:02:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T11:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/08\/06\/bill-protecting-water-rights-step-closer-to-becoming-law\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-08-06T05:08:04","modified_gmt":"2029-01-22T05:08:04","slug":"bill-protecting-water-rights-step-closer-to-becoming-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/08\/06\/bill-protecting-water-rights-step-closer-to-becoming-law\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Bill Protecting Water Rights  Step Closer To Becoming Law"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., has announced that two of his water bills passed the Senate Energy  and Natural Resources Committee.<br \/>\n\t  \u201cAccess to safe water is a basic necessity, and I\u2019m thrilled to see that my bipartisan  bills improving water infrastructure in Montana have passed out of committee and are one step closer to becoming law. It\u2019s critical that we implement commonsense solutions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131103,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130955\/revisions\/131103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130955"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=130955"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=130955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}