{"id":761287,"date":"2023-07-25T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=761287"},"modified":"2023-07-25T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T08:30:00","slug":"satellites-unveil-the-far-reaching-impact-of-irrigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=761287","title":{"rendered":"Satellites unveil the far-reaching impact of irrigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"Rice fields, Mekong Delta\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Globally, more than 70% of the freshwater withdrawn from Earth\u2019s surface or from underground is used to irrigate crops. The need to produce more food for a growing population against the backdrop of climate change is challenging enough, but satellites reveal that extracting water doesn\u2019t just affect the local environment \u2013 there are knock-on consequences for many aspects of the Earth system.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/one.esa.int\/Applications\/Observing_the_Earth\/FutureEO\/Satellites_unveil_the_far-reaching_impact_of_irrigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Satellites unveil the far-reaching impact of irrigation<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ESA Space News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Globally, more than 70% of the freshwater withdrawn from Earth\u2019s surface or from underground is used to irrigate crops. The need to produce more food for a growing population against&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ESA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761287","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=761287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761287\/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=761287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=761287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=761287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}