{"id":878706,"date":"2026-10-11T15:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T15:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/878706\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T15:52:08","slug":"in-mexico-polluted-rivers-dried-up-wells-are-reshaping-a-once-fertile-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/878706\/","title":{"rendered":"In Mexico, polluted rivers, dried-up wells are reshaping a once-fertile valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"3IAMIDRGMVDFBMTF4CAREV5FW4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">PUEBLA, Mexico \u2014 When Amalia Azcatl Cuautle returned to her hometown in central Mexico\u2019s Cholula valley after more than 25 years in the United States, the river of her childhood was gone. The B\u00e1tan River used to flow through Santa Mar\u00eda Acuexcomac but had dried up because of decades of water being extracted and redirected to the expanding state capital, Puebla de Zaragoza. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PUEBLA, Mexico \u2014 When Amalia Azcatl Cuautle returned to her hometown in central Mexico\u2019s Cholula valley after more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-878706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=878706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}