{"id":765856,"date":"2023-09-15T11:25:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T15:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=765856"},"modified":"2023-09-15T11:25:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T15:25:04","slug":"kenya-ongata-rongai-boom-town-destroyed-two-vital-rivers-new-study-flags-a-major-health-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=765856","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Ongata Rongai boom town destroyed two vital rivers\u2014new study flags a major health risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 10 years, Ongata Rongai, a satellite town on the edge of Kenya&#8217;s capital, Nairobi, has experienced uncontrolled development and exponential population growth. Because of its appealing location close to the city, it&#8217;s jumped from just under 40,000 residents in 2009 to a population of over 172,000 in 2019. The most recent census data showed a high annual population growth rate of 16%.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-09-kenya-ongata-rongai-boom-town.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kenya: Ongata Rongai boom town destroyed two vital rivers\u2014new study flags a major health risk<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past 10 years, Ongata Rongai, a satellite town on the edge of Kenya&#8217;s capital, Nairobi, has experienced uncontrolled development and exponential population growth. Because of its appealing location&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-765856","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\/765856","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=765856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765856\/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=765856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=765856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=765856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}