{"id":67751,"date":"2018-01-30T17:22:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T22:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67751"},"modified":"2018-01-30T18:50:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T23:50:42","slug":"nyt-dangerously-low-on-water-cape-town-now-faces-day-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67751","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Dangerously Low on Water, Cape Town Now Faces \u2018Day Zero\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story-continues-1\" class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"124\" data-total-count=\"124\">It sounds like a Hollywood blockbuster. \u201cDay Zero\u201d is coming to Cape Town this April. Everyone, be warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"327\" data-total-count=\"451\">The government\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymaverick.co.za\/opinionista\/2018-01-22-from-the-inside-the-countdown-to-day-zero\/#.WmhKa5P1XfZ\">cautions<\/a>\u00a0that the Day Zero threat will surpass anything a major city has faced since World War II or the Sept. 11 attacks. Talks are underway with South Africa\u2019s police because \u201cnormal policing will be entirely inadequate.\u201d Residents, their nerves increasingly frayed, speak in whispers of impending chaos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"98\" data-total-count=\"549\">The reason for the alarm is simple: The city\u2019s water supply is dangerously close to running dry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"329\" data-total-count=\"878\">If water levels keep falling, Cape Town will declare Day Zero in less than three months. Taps in homes and businesses will be turned off until the rains come. The city\u2019s four million residents will have to line up for water rations at 200 collection points. The city is bracing for the impact on public health and social order.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/30\/world\/africa\/cape-town-day-zero.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It sounds like a Hollywood blockbuster. \u201cDay Zero\u201d is coming to Cape Town this April. Everyone, be warned. The government\u00a0cautions\u00a0that the Day Zero threat will surpass anything a major city has faced since World War II or the Sept. 11<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=67751\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,140,168,523,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-energy-natural-resources","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-south-africa-africa","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67753,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67751\/revisions\/67753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}