{"id":24712,"date":"2022-10-02T14:08:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T18:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=24712"},"modified":"2022-10-02T14:08:11","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T18:08:11","slug":"lebanons-dwindling-rain-leaves-farmers-struggling-for-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2022\/10\/lebanons-dwindling-rain-leaves-farmers-struggling-for-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon&#8217;s dwindling rain leaves farmers struggling for water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Water supplies in the Middle East can be highly variable and at times hard to come by. Lebanese farmers have used novel methods for collecting rainwater to help supplement irrigation water for crop production. But in recent years, rainfall has gotten more scarce, leading to difficulty in maintaining their crops with a dwindling water supply. You can read more nd view pictures in <em>Yahoo News<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/lebanons-dwindling-rain-leaves-farmers-062248766.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/02\/spain-low-reservoir-2021-2022.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/02\/spain-low-reservoir-2021-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/02\/spain-low-reservoir-2021-2022.jpg 720w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2022\/02\/spain-low-reservoir-2021-2022-300x167.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water supplies in the Middle East can be highly variable and at times hard to come by. Lebanese farmers have used novel methods for collecting rainwater to help supplement irrigation water for crop production. But in recent years, rainfall has gotten more scarce, leading to difficulty in maintaining their crops with a dwindling water supply. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":23610,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-drought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24712","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24713,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24712\/revisions\/24713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}