{"id":2940,"date":"2007-06-20T22:20:07","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T22:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2940"},"modified":"2007-06-20T22:20:07","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T22:20:07","slug":"water_wars_in_t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2940","title":{"rendered":"Water Wars in the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onpointradio.org\/shows\/2007\/06\/20070620_a_main.asp\">Tom Ashbrook:<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>ight across the planet, good fresh water supplies are under pressure. In America&#8217;s West and Southwest, the combination of drought and booming population growth have made that pressure intense.<br \/>\nAs the Colorado River and its giant reservoirs have shrunk, Arizona&#8217;s population has grown by 40 percent since 1990, and Las Vegas-area water use has doubled. California&#8217;s thirst for water is huge.<br \/>\nThe trend lines show real trouble for desert cities. Global warming doesn&#8217;t help. And the West may be a lesson for us all.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>audio<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Ashbrook: ight across the planet, good fresh water supplies are under pressure. In America&#8217;s West and Southwest, the combination of drought and booming population growth have made that pressure intense. As the Colorado River and its giant reservoirs have shrunk, Arizona&#8217;s population has grown by 40 percent since 1990, and Las Vegas-area water use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}