{"id":26780,"date":"2018-02-04T01:05:12","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T00:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/04\/let-cape-town-revolutionise-the-way-we-think-about-water-anne-van-loon\/"},"modified":"2018-02-04T01:05:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T00:05:12","slug":"let-cape-town-revolutionise-the-way-we-think-about-water-anne-van-loon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=26780","title":{"rendered":"Let Cape Town revolutionise the way we think about water | Anne Van Loon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African city\u2019s crisis is a warning that we can\u2019t keep squandering one of life\u2019s basic necessitiesFor something so essential, water management is all too often lacking in sophistication. It\u2019s about playing a waiting game \u2013 waiting for the rains to return in time and the reservoirs and groundwater reserves to replenish. About as sophisticated as when your GP says: \u201cHere\u2019s some paracetamol; if you\u2019re not feeling better in a couple of weeks, come and see me again&#8230;\u201dMany illnesses will go away by themselves and often the rains do come. But in chronic cases waiting is&nbsp;highly dangerous. Witness the Cape Town water crisis. When \u201cday zero\u201d strikes \u2013 the day engineers turn off taps, in about 10 weeks \u2013 many will suffer, provoking, potentially, social unrest and instability. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2018\/feb\/04\/let-cape-town-revolutionise-the-way-we-think-about-water\" target=\"_blank\">Let Cape Town revolutionise the way we think about water | Anne Van Loon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African city\u2019s crisis is a warning that we can\u2019t keep squandering one of life\u2019s basic necessitiesFor something so essential, water management is all too often lacking in sophistication. It\u2019s about playing a waiting game \u2013 waiting for the rains to return in time and the reservoirs and groundwater [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}