{"id":651013,"date":"2020-04-03T12:01:14","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T16:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=651013"},"modified":"2020-04-03T12:01:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T16:01:14","slug":"groundwater-a-threatened-resource-requiring-sustainable-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=651013","title":{"rendered":"Groundwater, a threatened resource requiring sustainable management"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), groundwater supplies half of the world&#8217;s population with fresh water and makes up 43% of the water used in irrigation. Despite its importance, it is calculated that about a third of the world&#8217;s greatest aquifers are drying up quickly and that 20% are being overexploited. In Spain, a country where a large number of crops are watered with groundwater, scientific data show that the extraction rate is much higher than the water replenishing rate.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-04-groundwater-threatened-resource-requiring-sustainable.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Groundwater, a threatened resource requiring sustainable management<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), groundwater supplies half of the world&#8217;s population with fresh water and makes up 43% of the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}