{"id":7036,"date":"2015-04-02T05:54:44","date_gmt":"2015-04-02T10:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7036"},"modified":"2015-04-02T05:54:44","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T10:54:44","slug":"water-is-life-we-cant-afford-to-waste-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=7036","title":{"rendered":"Water Is Life; We Can\u2019t Afford To Waste It"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2015\/04\/01\/water-life-we-can-t-afford-waste-it\" target=\"_blank\">Water Is Life; We Can\u2019t Afford To Waste It<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>How long can you go without water? You could probably survive a few weeks without water for cooking. If you stopped washing, the threat to your life might only come from people who can\u2019t stand the smell. But most people won\u2019t live for more than three days without water to drink. It makes sense: our bodies are about 65 per cent\u00a0water.<\/p>\n<p>According to the United Nations, about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/water.org\/water-crisis\/water-facts\/water\/\" target=\"_blank\">750 million people lack access to safe water<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 that\u2019s one in nine! One child dies every minute from a water-related disease and 1.2 billion people, a fifth of the global population, live in areas where water is scarce. And it\u2019s not just in other countries. As of January, at least 1,838\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canadians.org\/drinking-water\" target=\"_blank\">drinking water advisories<\/a>\u00a0were in effect in Canada, including 169 in 126\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/watercanada.net\/2014\/canadas-big-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\">First Nations communities<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 some ongoing for\u00a0years.<\/p>\n<p>With Canada\u2019s abundant glaciers, lakes, rivers and streams, we often take water for granted. (In my home province,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.biv.com\/article\/2015\/2\/no-more-free-water-bottlers-bc\/\" target=\"_blank\">we give it away to large corporations<\/a>\u00a0that bottle and sell it back to us at exorbitant prices!) We shouldn\u2019t be so complacent. People in California thought they had enough water to fill swimming pools, water gardens and yards, support a fertile agricultural industry and shoot massive volumes into the ground to fracture shale deposits to release the oil they contain. Now, with the state in its\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/california\/la-me-drought-relief-20150320-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">fourth year of severe drought<\/a>, regulators are considering emergency legislation and have imposed restrictions to deal with\u00a0shortages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water Is Life; We Can\u2019t Afford To Waste It How long can you go without water? You could probably survive a few weeks without water for cooking. If you stopped washing, the threat to your life might only come from people who can\u2019t stand the smell. But most people won\u2019t live for more than three [&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":[4,7],"tags":[101,103,1080,220,822,826,866],"class_list":["post-7036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-california","tag-canada","tag-david-suzuki","tag-drought","tag-un","tag-united-nations","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036","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=7036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7037,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036\/revisions\/7037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}