{"id":575751,"date":"2026-08-21T10:02:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/575751\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T10:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T10:02:31","slug":"india-is-turning-to-ancient-water-systems-as-modern-ones-run-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/575751\/","title":{"rendered":"India is turning to ancient water systems as modern ones run dry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">Before the village where Varsha, 67, lives dug a johad, her well would run inconsistently through the dry months. Now it holds water year-round, she says. Varsha never used to speak in her village assemblies, but now she has become a vocal advocate for the structures. What is needed now, she says, is regular desilting and more structures besides, so nobody depends on a single source.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before the village where Varsha, 67, lives dug a johad, her well would run inconsistently through the dry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-575751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}