{"id":14768,"date":"2018-06-17T16:35:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-17T20:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=14768"},"modified":"2018-06-17T16:35:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T20:35:54","slug":"indias-severe-water-shortage-increased-by-poor-irrigation-techniques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/06\/indias-severe-water-shortage-increased-by-poor-irrigation-techniques\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s severe water shortage increased by poor irrigation techniques"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that 80% of the water used in India goes for agriculture? But poor irrigation techniques including inefficient methods and bad government policies encourage farmers to misuse water supplies, resulting in severe shortages for the populace. Groundwater levels are rapidly dropping in many areas, which means that cities will not be able to provide water for their citizens in the future. You can read more at <em>CNN<\/em> at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/06\/15\/health\/india-water-shortage-crisis-intl\/index.html\">https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/06\/15\/health\/india-water-shortage-crisis-intl\/index.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11926\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11926\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/insight-india-drought1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11926\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/insight-india-drought1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/insight-india-drought1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/insight-india-drought1-245x138.jpg 245w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2017\/07\/insight-india-drought1.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A lifeline to southern India, the mighty Cauvery River is turning into a vast sandpit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that 80% of the water used in India goes for agriculture? But poor irrigation techniques including inefficient methods and bad government policies encourage farmers to misuse water supplies, resulting in severe shortages for the populace. Groundwater levels are rapidly dropping in many areas, which means that cities will not be able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":11926,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14769,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14768\/revisions\/14769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}