{"id":145525,"date":"2015-04-06T15:08:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T15:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=145525"},"modified":"2015-04-06T15:08:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T15:08:18","slug":"california-water-shortage-one-drought-for-the-rich-and-another-for-everyone-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/california-water-shortage-one-drought-for-the-rich-and-another-for-everyone-else\/","title":{"rendered":"California water shortage: One drought for the rich and another for everyone else"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-8939454 articleContent\">\n<p>The lush front lawns of Los Angeles are in the full bloom of spring, and it\u2019s difficult to believe the Golden State is about to turn brown. But that is the inevitable implication of the drought, and of new rules which call for a 25 per cent cut in urban water use.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"widget storyContent article widget-editable viziwyg-section-1024 inpage-widget-6138699 articleContent\">\n<div class=\"body \">\n<p>The <a title=\"California drought: Governor Jerry Brown announces mandatory water restrictions for first time in state's history\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/california-drought-governor-jerry-brown-announces-mandatory-water-restrictions-for-first-time-in-states-history-10150396.html\">mandatory restrictions are the first in the state\u2019s history<\/a>, but they look set to deepen long-standing divisions between the wealthy and the less well-off, and between California\u2019s packed cities and its vast, sparsely populated agricultural areas. \u201cIt\u2019s a different world,\u201d Governor Jerry Brown said as he unveiled the plan. \u201cWe have to act differently.\u201d What he did not say, however, was that some will have to act more differently than others.<\/p>\n<p>In Los Angeles, whose residents use an average of 265 litres per day, an academic study found that the most affluent neighbourhoods used up to three times more water than others. In wealthy southern cities such as Malibu and Newport Beach, where people have large front lawns, consumption was more than 560 litres per capita in January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/california-water-shortage-one-drought-for-the-rich-and-another-for-everyone-else-as-golden-state-goes-brown-again-10157523.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lush front lawns of Los Angeles are in the full bloom of spring, and it\u2019s difficult to believe the Golden State is about to turn brown. But that is the inevitable implication of the drought, and of new rules which call for a 25 per cent cut in urban water use. The mandatory restrictions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,1616],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-145525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-usa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}