{"id":124655,"date":"2021-07-06T22:22:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T05:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/scientists-warn-western-u-s-drought-could-be-new-normal"},"modified":"2021-07-06T22:22:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T05:22:52","slug":"scientists-warn-western-u-s-drought-could-be-new-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/scientists-warn-western-u-s-drought-could-be-new-normal","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Warn Western U.S. Drought Could Be \u2018New Normal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-warn-western-u-s-drought-could-be-new-normal2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Underground aquifers could be refilled with desalinated ocean water. Also there are numerous ways to bring more water to areas which can revitalize either at scale for cities to even just homes.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Nearly 90 percent of the Western U.S. is gripped by an \u201capocalyptical\u201d drought that only continues to worsen. Even if you don\u2019t live in the area, it affects you \u2014 and what you do affects it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Underground aquifers could be refilled with desalinated ocean water. Also there are numerous ways to bring more water to areas which can revitalize either at scale for cities to even just homes. Nearly 90 percent of the Western U.S. is gripped by an \u201capocalyptical\u201d drought that only continues to worsen. Even if you don\u2019t live [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}