{"id":2491,"date":"2006-07-30T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-30T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2006-07-30T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-30T18:06:00","slug":"accelerating-shrinkage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2006\/07\/30\/14\/06\/accelerating-shrinkage\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerating Shrinkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/07\/28\/AR2006072801994.html\">Mountain glaciers &#8230; are in retreat around the Earth, taking with them vast stores of water that grow crops, generate electricity and sustain cities and rural areas &#8230; The steady supply of water [farmers] need to grow crops has become erratic. &#8220;There is less water now. If there is no water, this land becomes a desert,&#8221; said Benedicto Loayza, a 52-year-old farmer &#8230; Cuzco, a city of 400,000, has already resorted to periodic water rationing and started pumping from a river 15 miles away for its drinking supply. In Peru&#8217;s capital, Lima, engineers have urged successive governments to drill a tunnel through the Andes and build big lagoons to ensure that the city&#8217;s 8 million residents have water &#8230; Cities in China, India, Nepal and Bolivia also face drastic water shortages as the glaciers shrink.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mountain glaciers &#8230; are in retreat around the Earth, taking with them vast stores of water that grow crops, generate electricity and sustain cities and rural areas &#8230; The steady supply of water [farmers]&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}