{"id":218195,"date":"2010-01-07T17:51:11","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T22:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colli239.fts.educ.msu.edu\/?p=21641"},"modified":"2010-01-07T17:51:11","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T22:51:11","slug":"no-annual-rains-in-middle-east-the-last-three-summers-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218195","title":{"rendered":"No Annual Rains in Middle East the Last Three Summers 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-21640\" title=\"Iraq.A2006040.1035.1km\" src=\"http:\/\/colli239.fts.educ.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Iraq.A2006040.1035.1km-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"Iraq.A2006040.1035.1km\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2010Jan7: <\/strong>The Middle East has not had annual rains the last three summers. 800,000 Syrians have lost their livelihood and more than 160 Syrian villages have been abandoned because of severe drought conditions. Thousands of &#8220;water refugees&#8221; have migrated to urban areas. &#8220;The water refugees are a product of climate change, mismanaged water resources. It&#8217;s a product of population explosion; it&#8217;s a lot of things. It&#8217;s a perfect storm that is wreaking havoc in the rural farming sector of Syria and Iraq,&#8221; says Hussein Amery, an expert on Middle East water management and a professor at the Colorado School of Mines (NPR).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference: <\/strong>NPR <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=122294630\" >http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=122294630<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image Description:<\/strong> Large dust storm was blowing over and obscuring the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Image acquired February 9, 2006. Image Location: NASA <a href=\"http:\/\/visibleearth.nasa.gov\/view_rec.php?id=8369\" >http:\/\/visibleearth.nasa.gov\/view_rec.php?id=8369<\/a> Image Permission: This image is in the public domain because it contains materials that originally came from NASA, taken or made during the course of an employee\u2019s official duties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2010Jan7: The Middle East has not had annual rains the last three summers. 800,000 Syrians have lost their livelihood and more than 160 Syrian villages have been abandoned because of severe drought conditions. Thousands of &#8220;water refugees&#8221; have migrated to urban areas. &#8220;The water refugees are a product of climate change, mismanaged water resources. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}