{"id":82255,"date":"2018-09-02T11:42:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-02T18:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/this-invention-will-keep-water-running-after-a-caribbean-hurricane-hits"},"modified":"2018-09-02T11:42:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-02T18:42:21","slug":"this-invention-will-keep-water-running-after-a-caribbean-hurricane-hits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/this-invention-will-keep-water-running-after-a-caribbean-hurricane-hits","title":{"rendered":"This Invention Will Keep Water Running After a Caribbean Hurricane Hits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-invention-will-keep-water-running-after-a-caribbean-hurricane-hits.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, another <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/new-hurricane-season-jeopardizes-caribbean-recovery-5-essential-reads-97588\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hurricane season is already underway<\/a> in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>Our research on <a href=\"http:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/going-green\/2017\/11\/19\/going-green--rainwater-harvesting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rainwater harvesting<\/a> \u2014 a low-cost, low-tech way to collect and store rainwater \u2014 suggests this technique could be deployed across the Caribbean to improve these communities\u2019 access to water both after storms and in everyday life.<\/p>\n<p>Even before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/45511-tesla-solar-elon-musk-reveals-the-staggering-scale-of-puerto-rico-projects\">hurricanes Maria<\/a> and Irma hit last September, some Caribbean islands were unable to provide reliable <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalwaterforum.org\/2018\/02\/11\/an-overview-of-the-challenges-facing-iwrm-in-the-caribbean\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clean water for drinking and washing<\/a> to all residents.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/48602-harvesting-rain-after-a-hurricane\">https:\/\/www.inverse.com\/article\/48602-harvesting-rain-after-a-hurricane<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, another hurricane season is already underway in the Caribbean. Our research on rainwater harvesting \u2014 a low-cost, low-tech way to collect and store rainwater \u2014 suggests this technique could be deployed across the Caribbean to improve these communities\u2019 access to water both after storms and in everyday life. Even before hurricanes Maria and Irma [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82255","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=82255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}