{"id":784472,"date":"2026-09-27T17:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T17:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/784472\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T17:34:12","slug":"world-rivers-day-why-rivers-are-running-on-empty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/784472\/","title":{"rendered":"World Rivers Day: Why rivers are running on empty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> So what if a river has too little or too much water?<\/p>\n<p class=\"description dxoq797 t1fzgn0z l1evdo4u blt0baw rcjjkz7 w128axg5 b16w0xvi\">When rivers rise too quickly and burst their banks, the consequences can be deadly for nearby communities. This is similar to what happened after the recent catastrophic glacier collapsed in a river valley in Nepal, killing thousands. But too little water puts a strain on hydropower production, drinking water supplies, agriculture, shipping, fisheries and the species living in rivers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So what if a river has too little or too much water? When rivers rise too quickly and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784473,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1397,90,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-784472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}