{"id":980,"date":"2014-10-03T15:14:17","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T19:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=980"},"modified":"2021-10-18T11:17:03","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T15:17:03","slug":"climate-change-could-increase-fresh-water-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/10\/climate-change-could-increase-fresh-water-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate change could increase fresh water supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study by MIT scientists shows that the supply of fresh water could increase under global warming.\u00a0 The warmer conditions are expected to speed up the global water cycle, leading to more rainfall in many areas.\u00a0 The scientists estimate that it could increase by 15 percent over the whole globe.\u00a0 However, there are many other factors which might affect water availability, including population increases and relocations, changes in the phase (snow to rain) or timing of precipitation events which could still affect water supplies locally.\u00a0 You can read the story by clicking <a title=\"CC increase of fresh water\" href=\"https:\/\/www.climatecentral.org\/news\/climate-change-could-increase-global-fresh-water-supply-mit-18124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent study by MIT scientists shows that the supply of fresh water could increase under global warming.\u00a0 The warmer conditions are expected to speed up the global water cycle, leading to more rainfall in many areas.\u00a0 The scientists estimate that it could increase by 15 percent over the whole globe.\u00a0 However, there are many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","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=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22861,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions\/22861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}