{"id":5667,"date":"2015-02-13T07:29:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T12:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5667"},"modified":"2015-02-13T07:32:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T12:32:31","slug":"starved-for-energy-pakistan-braces-for-a-water-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5667","title":{"rendered":"Starved for Energy, Pakistan Braces for a Water Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 id=\"story-heading\" class=\"story-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/13\/world\/asia\/pakistan-braces-for-major-water-shortages.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Starved for Energy,\u00a0Pakistan Braces for a Water Crisis<\/a><\/h3>\n<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"236\" data-total-count=\"236\">Energy-starved Pakistanis, their economy battered by chronic fuel and electricity shortages, may soon have to contend with a new resource crisis: major water shortages, the Pakistani government warned this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"207\" data-total-count=\"443\">A combination of global\u00a0<a title=\"Recent and archival news about global warming.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/science\/topics\/globalwarming\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">climate change<\/a>\u00a0and local waste and mismanagement have led to an alarmingly rapid depletion of\u00a0<a title=\"More news and information about Pakistan.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/pakistan\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\">Pakistan<\/a>\u2019s water supply, said the minister for water and energy, Khawaja Muhammad Asif.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"219\" data-total-count=\"662\">\u201cUnder the present situation, in the next six to seven years,\u00a0<a class=\"meta-loc\" title=\"More news and information about Pakistan.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/pakistan\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\">Pakistan<\/a>\u00a0can be a water-starved country,\u201d Mr. Asif said in an interview, echoing a warning that he first issued at a news conference in Lahore this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"219\" data-total-count=\"881\">The prospect of a major water crisis in Pakistan, even if several years distant, offers a stark reminder of a growing challenge in other poor and densely populated countries that are vulnerable to global\u00a0<a class=\"meta-classifier\" title=\"Recent and archival news about global warming.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/science\/topics\/globalwarming\/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier\">climate change<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">In Pakistan, it poses a further challenge to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, whose government has come under sharp criticism for failing to end the country\u2019s electricity crisis. In some rural areas, heavy rationing has meant that as little as four hours of electricity a day is available.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starved for Energy,\u00a0Pakistan Braces for a Water Crisis Energy-starved Pakistanis, their economy battered by chronic fuel and electricity shortages, may soon have to contend with a new resource crisis: major water shortages, the Pakistani government warned this week. A combination of global\u00a0climate change\u00a0and local waste and mismanagement have led to an alarmingly rapid depletion of\u00a0Pakistan\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,220,1103,263,339,1745,3512,866,867,2060],"class_list":["post-5667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-drought","tag-electricity","tag-energy","tag-fuel","tag-pakistan","tag-resource-crisis","tag-water","tag-water-crisis","tag-water-shortage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5669,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5667\/revisions\/5669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}