{"id":1152,"date":"2015-02-23T15:21:16","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T15:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2015-02-23T15:21:16","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T15:21:16","slug":"heard-read-seen-by-water-diplomats-this-week-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/heard-read-seen-by-water-diplomats-this-week-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Heard, Read, Seen by Water Diplomats This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A list of news and blog posts and other web items we stumbled upon in the past week\u2026<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/17\/world\/americas\/drought-pushes-sao-paulo-brazil-toward-water-crisis.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=second-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/17\/world\/americas\/drought-pushes-sao-paulo-brazil-toward-water-crisis.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;module=second-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=0', 'Taps Start to Run Dry in Brazil&#8217;s Largest City']);\" >Taps Start to Run Dry in Brazil&#8217;s Largest City<\/a>\u00a0(The New York Times) &#8211; details the drastic situation in S\u00e3o Paulo where an unprecedented situation has officials warning that water service many only be offered two days a week.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecairopost.com\/news\/105670\/inside_egypt\/project-linking-nile-to-congo-river-is-unachievable-irrigation-expert\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.thecairopost.com\/news\/105670\/inside_egypt\/project-linking-nile-to-congo-river-is-unachievable-irrigation-expert', 'Project linking Nile to Congo is unachievable: irrigation expert']);\" >Project linking Nile to Congo is unachievable: irrigation expert<\/a>\u00a0(The Cairo Post) &#8211; argues that the proposal to link the Nile and Congo is not attainable because of cost, the need for extreme measures, and external challenges.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecairopost.com\/news\/134104\/news\/egypt-rejects-nile-congo-linking-project\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.thecairopost.com\/news\/134104\/news\/egypt-rejects-nile-congo-linking-project', 'Egypt rejects Nile-Congo linking project']);\" >Egypt rejects Nile-Congo linking project<\/a> (The Cairo Post) &#8211; discusses how the Egyptian government has closed the door on the proposal to link the Nile and Congo because of &#8220;technical reasons&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-02-spanish-town-showcases-smarter.html\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-02-spanish-town-showcases-smarter.html', 'Spanish town showcases a smarter way to manage water']);\" >Spanish town showcases a smarter way to manage water<\/a>\u00a0(Phys.org) &#8211; highlights the new water system to be pioneered in Almer\u00eda (Spain) which is going to include smart meters and mobile notifications so that costumers can be conscious of their consumption.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ucsusa.org\/a-dam-waste-outdated-reservoir-rules-dump-water-during-drought-630\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blog.ucsusa.org\/a-dam-waste-outdated-reservoir-rules-dump-water-during-drought-630', 'A Dam Waste: Outdated reservoir\u00a0rules dump water during drought ']);\" >A Dam Waste: Outdated reservoir\u00a0rules dump water during drought <\/a>(Union of Concerned Scientists Blog) &#8211; what happens when the rules we use to manage water don&#8217;t adapt to meet changes in environmental and human needs?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.ucsusa.org\/four-ways-scientists-can-give-good-answers-to-bad-questions-634\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blog.ucsusa.org\/four-ways-scientists-can-give-good-answers-to-bad-questions-634', 'Four\u00a0ways scientists can give good answers to bad questions ']);\" >Four\u00a0ways scientists can give good answers to bad questions <\/a>(Union of Concerned Scientists Blog) &#8211; strategies for identifying and answering misleading or badly-framed questions asked by non-experts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<p><em>Contributed by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ShafikIslam\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/twitter.com\/ShafikIslam', 'Shafik Islam']);\" >Shafik Islam<\/a>,\u00a0Margaret Garcia and Amanda Repella<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A list of news and blog posts and other web items we stumbled upon in the past week\u2026 Taps Start to Run Dry in Brazil&#8217;s Largest City\u00a0(The New York Times) &#8211; details the drastic situation in S\u00e3o Paulo where an unprecedented situation has officials warning that water service many only be offered two days a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-heard-read-seen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineeringdiplomacy.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}