{"id":84918,"date":"2012-03-22T10:38:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T14:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/84918\/world-water-day-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-03-22T10:38:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T14:38:20","slug":"world-water-day-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/84918\/world-water-day-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"World Water Day 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unwater.org\/worldwaterday\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/i217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc290\/philoche01\/bul\/247585-world-water-day-march-22-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qZ_pB28uVMI\">World Water Day 2012 &#8211; The World Is Thirsty Because We Are Hungry <\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Water scarcity already impacts every continent and more than 40 percent of the people on our planet. By 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world\u2019s population could be living under water-stressed conditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">There are more than 7 billion people to feed on the planet today, with another 2 billion expected by 2050. This population increase means that 70 percent more food will be needed and up to 100 percent in developing countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">It takes nearly 800 gallons of water to produce enough food to satisfy a person\u2019s daily needs. Each person drinks anywhere from 0.5 to 1 gallon of water every day. However, most of the water we consume is embedded in the food we eat, meaning that wasted food equates to wasted water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">It takes 396 gallons of water to produce about two pounds of wheat. It takes 10 times more water (3,960 gallons) to produce the same amount (two pounds) of beef! Producing feed crops for livestock, slaughtering and the processing of meat, milk and other dairy products also require large quantities of water.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Why is water a key to food security?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unwater.org\/worldwaterday\/images\/faqsimages\/droughtbox.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"178\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">How much water is needed to produce our food?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unwater.org\/worldwaterday\/images\/faqsimages\/vwfaqs.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">What effect does climate change have on our food security?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unwater.org\/worldwaterday\/images\/faqsimages\/24707_0406.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">How can we protect this precious resource?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unwater.org\/worldwaterday\/images\/faqsimages\/conserve.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"356\" height=\"137\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Click on the link below for Frequently asked questions :<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">http:\/\/www.unwater.org\/worldwaterday\/faqs.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Water Day 2012 &#8211; The World Is Thirsty Because We Are Hungry Water scarcity already impacts every continent and more than 40 percent of the people on our planet. By 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in countries or regions with absolute water scarcity, and two-thirds of the world\u2019s population could be living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,13,28,17,10,19,837,11,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","category-environment","category-health","category-home","category-life","category-lifestyles","category-nature-2","category-people","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}