{"id":2264,"date":"2020-05-02T21:12:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T21:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2264"},"modified":"2020-05-02T21:12:23","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T21:12:23","slug":"water-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2264","title":{"rendered":"water crisis&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/water-book-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/water-book-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/water-book-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/water-book.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was reading part of this book today.  One excerpt:  &#8220;As a world community, we are actually standing by while thousands of children die every day from water scarcity and water borne diseases.  Some 6,000 children a day die from water related maladies.&#8221;  This, more than anywhere, is in some of the more arid Third World countries.  Meanwhile in the First World, in nations like America, we are forever watering our lawn simply because we want it as green as possible.  We are wasting billions of dollars yearly on non-nutritional beverages (pop, sparkling water, beer&#8230;).  We are taking 15 to 20 minute showers&#8230; And I could go on, and on, and&#8230;  America would do well to lose most of the junk beverages, for one, and go to water rationing as well, until we develop more of a &#8220;water conservation habit.&#8221;  In tandem, we would also do well to take the tremendous savings from this to mobilize, by a factor of 100, <em>way<\/em> more initiatives into these Third World countries to establish many more clean drinking water systems.  &#8220;But God, when did we see you thirsty?&#8221;  We&#8217;ll ask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was reading part of this book today. One excerpt: &#8220;As a world community, we are actually standing by while thousands of children die every day from water scarcity and water borne diseases. Some 6,000 children a day die from <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=2264\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2266,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2264\/revisions\/2266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}