{"id":3640,"date":"2015-06-30T20:47:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T00:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2015-06-30T21:58:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T01:58:50","slug":"georgia-approves-new-drought-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2015\/06\/georgia-approves-new-drought-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia approves new drought plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia&#8217;s Board of Natural Resources approved a new drought plan last week, according to Walter C. Jones of Morris News Service in this <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineathens.com\/local-news\/2015-06-30\/rules-over-lawn-watering-car-washing-during-next-drought-are-approved?utm_source=Morris%20Communications%20Co.&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Today%27sTopStories-AthensBanner-HeraldHeadlines\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> from <em>OnlineAthens.com<\/em>. \u00a0The drought plan was modified from an earlier drought plan that caused farmers and agribusinesses some concerns in the exceptional 2007-2009 drought in north Georgia. \u00a0The new plan is more friendly to agricultural producers but worries water advocacy groups because of its potentially unscientific methods and chance for political interference in\u00a0determining drought status.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the official documentation of the approved changes at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/environet.dnr.state.ga.us\/30\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/environet.dnr.state.ga.us\/30\/index.php<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3601\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3601\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/drought-20150623_southeast_none.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3601\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/drought-20150623_southeast_none-300x300.png\" alt=\"Source: National Drought Monitor\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/drought-20150623_southeast_none-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/drought-20150623_southeast_none-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/drought-20150623_southeast_none-138x138.png 138w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/06\/drought-20150623_southeast_none.png 816w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: National Drought Monitor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgia&#8217;s Board of Natural Resources approved a new drought plan last week, according to Walter C. Jones of Morris News Service in this article from OnlineAthens.com. \u00a0The drought plan was modified from an earlier drought plan that caused farmers and agribusinesses some concerns in the exceptional 2007-2009 drought in north Georgia. \u00a0The new plan is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3640","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\/3640","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=3640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3642,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions\/3642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}