{"id":29983,"date":"2026-05-11T21:04:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=29983"},"modified":"2026-05-11T21:04:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:04:35","slug":"what-does-water-mean-to-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2026\/05\/what-does-water-mean-to-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What does water mean to you?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With all of the droughts and floods that are currently going on across the US, it is not surprising that farmers are thinking more about water than they have for some time. The <em>Farm Press<\/em> published a recent article in which some farmers described <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmprogress.com\/farm-life\/what-does-water-mean-to-you-?utm_rid=CPG02000002518665&amp;utm_campaign=107862&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;elq2=47ffcb2a68f54460be039db107d0c97f&amp;sp_eh=0f578de3184a1efdc22151d6ea9c33f7f1990c917c692dbf7a223482d38ef981\">what water meant to them<\/a>, including a farmer from southern Georgia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/Rain_water_Richard_Huish_College_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1611409.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/Rain_water_Richard_Huish_College_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1611409.jpg\" alt=\"water droplets on gray background\" class=\"wp-image-4654\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/Rain_water_Richard_Huish_College_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1611409.jpg 640w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/Rain_water_Richard_Huish_College_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1611409-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/10\/Rain_water_Richard_Huish_College_-_geograph.org_.uk_-_1611409-184x138.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Derek Harper, Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all of the droughts and floods that are currently going on across the US, it is not surprising that farmers are thinking more about water than they have for some time. The Farm Press published a recent article in which some farmers described what water meant to them, including a farmer from southern Georgia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29983","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\/29983","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=29983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29984,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29983\/revisions\/29984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}