{"id":210209,"date":"2025-03-31T21:12:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T02:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/earths-storage-of-water-in-soil-lakes-and-rivers-is-dwindling-and-its-especially-bad-for-farming"},"modified":"2025-03-31T21:12:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T02:12:59","slug":"earths-storage-of-water-in-soil-lakes-and-rivers-is-dwindling-and-its-especially-bad-for-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/earths-storage-of-water-in-soil-lakes-and-rivers-is-dwindling-and-its-especially-bad-for-farming","title":{"rendered":"Earth\u2019s storage of water in soil, lakes and rivers is dwindling. And it\u2019s especially bad for farming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/earths-storage-of-water-in-soil-lakes-and-rivers-is-dwindling-and-its-especially-bad-for-farming2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Melbourne hydrology professor Dongryeol Ryu and his collaborator Ki-Weon Seo were on a train to visit Ryu\u2019s family when they found something startling. Stopped at a station for technical issues, Seo had pulled out his computer to pass the time with some work when a result popped up in their data that Ryu could hardly believe: It suggested a \u201cremarkable\u201d amount of Earth\u2019s water stored on land had been depleted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt first we thought, \u2018That\u2019s an error in the model,\u2019\u201d Ryu said.<\/p>\n<p>After a year of checking, they determined it wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Melbourne hydrology professor Dongryeol Ryu and his collaborator Ki-Weon Seo were on a train to visit Ryu\u2019s family when they found something startling. Stopped at a station for technical issues, Seo had pulled out his computer to pass the time with some work when a result popped up in their data that Ryu [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210209","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}