{"id":86095,"date":"2018-12-25T08:22:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-25T16:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/early-warning-tools-aim-to-prevent-water-wars-curb-droughts"},"modified":"2018-12-25T08:22:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-25T16:22:19","slug":"early-warning-tools-aim-to-prevent-water-wars-curb-droughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/early-warning-tools-aim-to-prevent-water-wars-curb-droughts","title":{"rendered":"Early-warning tools aim to prevent \u2018water wars,\u2019 curb droughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/early-warning-tools-aim-to-prevent-water-wars-curb-droughts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Water scarcity is a global security risk. Researchers are developing ways to forecast risks to prevent conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>A plant grows between cracked mud at the Theewaterskloof dam near Cape Town, South Africa, on Jan. 21, 2018. The dam, which supplies most of Cape Town\u2019s potable water, is currently dangerously low as the city faces \u201cDay Zero\u201d, the point at which taps will be shut down across the city. Mike Hutchings \/ Reuters file.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/early-warning-tools-aim-prevent-water-wars-curb-droughts-n917001\">https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/early-warning-tools-aim-p...ts-n917001<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water scarcity is a global security risk. Researchers are developing ways to forecast risks to prevent conflicts. A plant grows between cracked mud at the Theewaterskloof dam near Cape Town, South Africa, on Jan. 21, 2018. The dam, which supplies most of Cape Town\u2019s potable water, is currently dangerously low as the city faces \u201cDay [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86095","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=86095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}