{"id":77315,"date":"2018-04-01T12:43:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T19:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/how-cape-town-found-water-savings-california-never-dreamed-of"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:11:39","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:11:39","slug":"how-cape-town-found-water-savings-california-never-dreamed-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/how-cape-town-found-water-savings-california-never-dreamed-of","title":{"rendered":"How Cape Town found water savings California never dreamed of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-cape-town-found-water-savings-california-never-dreamed-of.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>High-income Cape Town families have cut their average water use by 80%, according to Martine Visser, director of the Environmental Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town, while low-income families cut back by 40%. After city residents were restricted to just over 13 gallons per person a day, any household that blew the limit had a water restriction device attached to its pipes by authorities.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/la-fg-south-africa-drought-20180401-story.html\">http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/la-fg-south-africa-drought-20180401-story.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High-income Cape Town families have cut their average water use by 80%, according to Martine Visser, director of the Environmental Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town, while low-income families cut back by 40%. After city residents were restricted to just over 13 gallons per person a day, any household that blew the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77315","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77428,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77315\/revisions\/77428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}