{"id":951821,"date":"2026-10-30T11:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951821\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T11:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T11:12:10","slug":"severe-drought-how-close-are-we-to-running-out-of-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/951821\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe drought: How close are we to running out of water?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">Reservoirs have hit record lows, severe drought has been declared in parts of England and large areas of the country face hosepipe bans. The government says more than \u00a3100bn is being invested in water infrastructure, with nine new reservoirs in the pipeline.  But, after the hottest summer on record for the UK, are we prepared for a future of more extreme weather? And how close are we to running out of water?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reservoirs have hit record lows, severe drought has been declared in parts of England and large areas of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-951821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}